Artificial Intelligence · AI Ethics, Policy & Society
A topic within AI Ethics, Policy & Society, itself one of 10 topics in that field and part of Artificial Intelligence.
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Sastry et al.
Argues compute is a uniquely detectable, excludable and quantifiable input to AI development compared to data or algorithms, which makes it a practical lever for AI governance, and surveys the specific policy mechanisms that lever could support.
56 pageslink checked 17 Sept 2026Sevilla et al.
Analyses training compute across thousands of models and finds it has grown along three distinct trend lines — a slow pre-deep-learning era, a fast deep-learning era, and, from 2015, an even faster large-scale era driven by a handful of well-resourced actors.
10 pageslink checked 17 Sept 2026