Comment by iso1631

In a few years todays high end AI models will run on your watch

Of course that assumes we maintain open access to compute that we've enjoyed for the last half century, and I doubt that very much.

Stallman warned about the dangers of software being closed [0] 30 years ago, and the majority of modern IT industry just laugh a that sort of stuff because you can't make a billion dollar startup with that attitude, but I think the restrictions on owning the hardware at all will probably come first.

[0] https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/right-to-read.en.html