It more like asking the US government to get involved and if one of the 20 kids keeps on eating marshmallows, large numbers of federal agents raid the kid's offices and shut down the kid's compute resources.
My impression is that most of the short-term danger is from AI researchers residing in the US (and of the remainder, most reside in Britain).
But even if that were not true, as a US citizen, even if there is nothing I can do about my getting killing by, e.g., Chinese AI researchers, I'm still going to work hard to prevent the AI researchers living in my own country from ending the human race. I'm responsible for doing my part in the governance of my own country, they told me in high school.
I see no good solution to this problem, no path to safety, but that does not mean I am not going to do what I can.
AIs running on Macs are not a danger (and if ChatGPT were going to kill everyone it would've done it already): it is the AIs running on huge farms of GPUs or TPUs that are being planned that are the danger.
Also, the author (Eliezer Yudkowsky) calling for the shutdown of AI research on huge server farms doesn't have any stake (investment or employment relationship) in any AI company that would be harmed by telling the truth about what they find in their training datasets.
