For now, but in a decade or two that hardware will become cheaper and more widely available. What happens when people can run the equivalent of GPT-4 on a desktop GPU?
The hardware market would very likely be much different if those years don't include a heavily funded AI research industry driving up innovation and demand for that hardware, but even if nothing changed we would at least be buying a decade or two for us to be better prepared and more thoughtful about any technological advancements we want to pursue with AI.
Today the industry is driven entirely by the promise of future profits and the love of innovation with no real regard for actual risks that could be in play.
