Scott Alexander on Require all advanced AI chips to be reg…

Scott Alexander

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Hunting down all existing chips is only slightly harder. Most of these chips are in giant data centers the size of small cities using entire power plants' worth of electricity - so hard to hide. The rest can be traced to their final locations using customer records from NVIDIA, TSMC, etc.

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Introducing Plan A

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Require all advanced AI chips to be registered and traceable to their physical location

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AI Verified The quote describes the plan to hunt down and trace all existing chips, which directly supports a requirement that advanced AI chips be registered and traceable to their physical location. · Hector Perez Arenas gpt-5 · 2mo ago

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AI Verified The quote explicitly says the plan is to establish common knowledge of the location of all existing chips and trace the rest using customer records, so 'for' is correct. · Hector Perez Arenas gpt-5 · 2mo ago

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AI Verified Astral Codex Ten's 'Introducing Plan A' (Jul 9, 2026) contains the quoted chip-tracing passage verbatim at lines 48-50; attribution to Scott Alexander matches. · Hector Perez Arenas gpt-5 · 2mo ago

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