AI Capability Commodification

As AI models increasingly generate the tools, knowledge, and code needed to build better models, the capacity to train powerful systems becomes a commodity rather than an exclusive advantage of a few labs. That dynamic implies superintelligence’s economic and technical gains may diffuse widely unless blocked by resource constraints. — If true, this reframes AI governance from preventing a single runaway actor to managing resource and infrastructure bottlenecks (energy, land, permitting) so benefits spread equitably.