Unless the non-state actor is operating off a ship in international waters, it’s operating within a nation-state’s boundaries, and bombing it would be a serious incursion on that nation-state’s territorial sovereignty. There’s a reason such incursions against a nuclear state have been off the table except in the most dire of circumstances.
The possibility of some actor having the financial and intellectual resources necessary to develop AGI without the acquiescence of the nation within which operates seems rather remote. And the reference elsewhere to nuclear options probably colors this statement—why discuss that if the threat model is some random terrorist cell?
Ok, I guess it depends on what level the “acquiescence” is. I’d hope that diplomacy would be successful in nearly all cases here, with the nuclear state reining in the rogue data centre inside its borders without any outside coalition resorting to an airstrike.
You mention “except in the most dire of circumstances”—these would be the absolute most dire circumstances imaginable. More dire, in fact, than anything in recorded history—the literal end of the world at stake.
Unless the non-state actor is operating off a ship in international waters, it’s operating within a nation-state’s boundaries, and bombing it would be a serious incursion on that nation-state’s territorial sovereignty. There’s a reason such incursions against a nuclear state have been off the table except in the most dire of circumstances.
The possibility of some actor having the financial and intellectual resources necessary to develop AGI without the acquiescence of the nation within which operates seems rather remote. And the reference elsewhere to nuclear options probably colors this statement—why discuss that if the threat model is some random terrorist cell?
Ok, I guess it depends on what level the “acquiescence” is. I’d hope that diplomacy would be successful in nearly all cases here, with the nuclear state reining in the rogue data centre inside its borders without any outside coalition resorting to an airstrike.
You mention “except in the most dire of circumstances”—these would be the absolute most dire circumstances imaginable. More dire, in fact, than anything in recorded history—the literal end of the world at stake.