Bilawal Sidhu and Danielle Fong warn that frontier AI is shifting to restricted systems requiring developer passport and background checks

your passport used to matter if you were ambitious and wanted to move to eg silicon valley to find better opportunities for your talents. but the internet opened up a new frontier where you could 80-20 this without immigrating. a us/canadian passport became less necessary. this was a good thing.

now as sota models are gated behind nationality checks, i'm afraid we're entering a new era where your passport matters even for your economic productivity on the internet.