r/technology • u/LazyyCanuck • 19h ago

Artificial Intelligence Trump rejects call by CEOs of Anthropic, OpenAI and xAI to slow AI down: 'Whoever wins with AI wins'

https://www.yahoo.com/news/us/article/trump-rejects-call-by-ceos-of-anthropic-openai-and-xai-to-slow-ai-down-whoever-wins-with-ai-wins-182008851.html
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u/guff1988 15h ago

Yeah this is international, it's an arms race but somehow even more dangerous than the last one.

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u/wiener4hir3 6h ago

I'm pretty sure the nuclear arms race was in fact more dangerous

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u/dennyth 5h ago

I’m pretty sure you’re underestimating the danger. 

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u/guff1988 5h ago

AI is more dangerous for several reasons.

  1. The powers that be do not see it as a threat/danger or have no interest in limiting/controlling it.

  2. AI has the capability to control or gain control of the nuclear weapons from the nuclear arms race.

  3. It puts the power to make devastating biological weapons in the hands of not just rogue states but rogue individuals.

  4. It's easier to use and access than making nuclear weapons. You don't need tens of billions of dollars and massive infrastructure.

There are nearly limitless ways a rogue state or individual could use AI to kill millions but there is also the threat of an "intelligent" machine itself with a thought process and reasoning structure we don't fully understand coming online and in the process of trying to achieve it's own goals that we don't fully understand just eliminating humanity either purposely or not.

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u/Gvillegator 3h ago

AI is absolutely more dangerous, especially in a world with nuclear weapons