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Howard's essay of July 2023 refers to Yudkowsky's proposal of airstrikes on unauthorised data centres, which it names, as an instance of the enforcement that centralised control would require.

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AI Safety and the Age of Dislightenment → cites → Pausing AI Developments Isn't Enough. We Need to Shut it All Down

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AI Safety and the Age of Dislightenmentcites ↓Pausing AI Developments Isn't Enough. We Need to Shut it All Down

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Date: 2023-07-10 · publication Records dated 2023 →

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AI Safety and the Age of Dislightenment

fast.ai blog (fast.ai) · 2023-07-10

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“Eliezer Yudkowsky, proposed airstrikes on unauthorized data centers and the threat of nuclear war to ensure compliance from states failing to control unauthorized use of computation capability”

Location in source Section "The big problem"

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Authors: Jeremy Howard
Version: Retrieved for the candidate pack on 2026-10-29 (SHA-256 5ca44120c64baaa3f39782726ec12abfde72da60e1debfaef8c422f07d499aba). Current page at a URL dated 2023-11-07 that shows "Published July 10, 2023"; no archive capture compared.
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Accessed: 2026-10-29
Language: English (en)
Attribution: Jeremy Howard, “AI Safety and the Age of Dislightenment”, 2023-07-10.
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Check notes: Candidate pack passage, arguments about catastrophic risk from advanced AI (research/risk-debate). The quotation (27 words) matched the text retrieved for the candidate pack on 2026-10-29. Matching ignored differences of whitespace, case, quotation marks, dashes and Unicode compatibility forms, so the source’s typography can differ. No human editorial review.

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