What comes next: The govt will rollout an emergency citizenship program for any foreign-born employee working in a lab contingent on them immediately moving to the U.S. Everyone will be heavily vetted via the same screening construct already utilized by the defense primes. Google will have to move the entirety of DeepMind to the U.S. and fire whoever refuses to relocate. People will gleefully assume Demis will just start his own UK lab instead before realizing the next step is the US is about to gut foreign “unmonitored” access to compute. You can pull a LeCun but you won’t have sufficient compute to do shit. Greencards will be given to family members too. Foreign govts will freak out when they realize what is happening. We are gatekeeping and hoarding intelligence preemptively. Why? Because by GPT 7 France will be like “oh you just destroyed our services sector we are going to tax the labs to pay for the necessary benefits to prevent riots” and it’s a lot easier to do that if labs have critical employees based in Paris. Ditto for every other foreign nation. Anyone acting like this is surprising is simply incapable of thinking four steps ahead. We are going to see industries nuked over night. There will be civil unrest. The only way to navigate that is to tax and gatekeep. The only way you can tax something is if it lives in your borders. We are repatriating exposure points preemptively. Compute gatekeeping comes next. 🫡