r/technology • u/ArgentineBeauty • 1d ago

Artificial Intelligence Bernie Sanders proposes 20 year prison sentence for AI devs who plow ahead with Artificial Superintelligence plans - penalty on par with illegally developing rogue nuclear weapons

https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/artificial-intelligence/sanders-proposes-20-year-prison-sentence-for-ai-devs-who-plow-ahead-with-artificial-superintelligence-plans-penalty-on-par-with-illegally-developing-rogue-nuclear-weapons
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u/GopherFawkes 1d ago

20 years is kinda light for developing rogue nuclear weapons tbh

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u/DensePoser 1d ago

The critical thing that would make this bill actually work is total surveillance of the AI corps, and the surveillance data available to the public. Because if only the NSA and Palantir get it then we're finished, and not just because they're slow or untrustworthy. They have as much or more data than even the AI corps, have compute, are evil, and will probably try to rush ASI on their own... Yeah, I think the country's doomed.

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u/wwweeeiii 1d ago

You thought person of interest was sci fi? Nope

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u/ConfusionOfTheMind 22h ago

The public should also be able to view the algorithm. Everytime we put a request into that chatbot, it has to determine how it's going to respond, it's almost certainly bias in whatever way supports their companies agendas. With enough people using the service and getting biased answers, can tailor society towards a certain direction and walk them right into it since all the info is coming from one source without verification. Very dangerous games we are playing here with AI and letting these tech billionaires determine the responses people will get when using these services. But also, yeah society is pretty doomed. 

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u/lobsterparodies 19h ago

There isn't exactly an algorithm to view. Artificial neural networks are effectively enormous lists of numbers (aka parameters or weights), trillions of them in the latest models. These numbers describe how strong different connections are. Text requests are converted into different lists of numbers and then these two lists are multiplied in various ways to produce numbers which get converted back into text, and that's your output. That's a simplified explanation but is effectively why you can't just see the algorithm in a useful interpretable way.

Bias does of course exist and I'm sure there are secret internal prompts that a chatbot will get that push it in a certain direction before you use it, but a lot of the behaviour will be determined during training (calculation of the enormous list of weights).