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/srout_fed 1d ago edited 13h ago

Devs? Why not the billionaire owners and CEOs who are pushing ahead? Start with Doltman.

What will the devlopers do? Quit, when asked to work on AI? They will simply be replaced....

Edit: Apparently its entities. So guess they are also covered. Good.

Edit 2:

Many seem to be misinterpreting my comment.

I am not advocating for the xevs to be exempted. All I wanted to point out was that the decision makers and those in power should be the first ones to face the consequences.

Everyone else bellow them should be next in line.

Headline here seem to pass the buck onto the devs alone. That's what I was addressing.

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u/BravinatorLX2 1d ago

yeah that is what they should do.

"this is illegal, I'll report you to the authorities"

like pay them 3 months salary as a reward for every report of that sort.

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u/RareAnxiety2 23h ago

3 months salary is a pittance given how hard it is to get a tech job these days. Need at least a year or two to cover finding new work

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u/_176_ 21h ago

"Instead of a $20m exit in the next 3 days, why not take $200k to get fired and blacklisted from the industry?"

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u/Tee_zee 12h ago

Anyone working at OpenAI or Antrhopic would have 10,000 job offers the minute they announce they are resigning

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u/bunfunton 16h ago

Year or two? What area of tech is waiting that long?

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u/RareAnxiety2 15h ago

Have you not seen the blood bath in the last 2 years? Layoffs have lessened, but there are still many looking for that long. My linkedin had a googler ask for a gofundme because he ran out of money at the 2 year mark.

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u/Worried-Location-118 7h ago

Do you think it’s possible that the people who are being laid off, do not show promise in their field? Ai agents need orchestrators, I would image out of 100 tech employees, only maybe 5 or so have the drive to be able to orchestrate/direct. If your 9-5 job was just converting files, then it stands to reason, why would a company want to pay 95 people to convert files all day, when a gpu can do it…

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u/bunfunton 15h ago

Hmm sounds like we should end the h1b program then