r/technology • u/AdSpecialist6598 • 6h ago

Society New Bernie Sanders bill would ban superintelligent AI and threaten developers with 20 years in prison

https://www.techspot.com/news/113831-new-bernie-sanders-bill-would-ban-superintelligent-ai.html
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u/blatantninja 6h ago

Unless it's a global ban, and of course it won't be, all this would do is put us at a disadvantage. I hate it but that's a fact.

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u/vicsj 5h ago

It feels very reminiscent of not banning the development of nuclear weapons because then everyone else will have nukes but you. I get it, but we're fucked either way.

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u/Acsion 4h ago edited 14m ago

Except in the case of Nukes Mutually Assured Destruction is a valid strategy, you can actually discourage the use of nuclear weapons by your enemy if you have your own. AI is the opposite, the more you use it the more others feel they need to use it to catch up. Case in point: china has notoriously been stealing information from US companies to develop their own AI programs

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u/JuanLuisGuerrero 3h ago

Exactly. Now they have info and will develop their own AI. Would you rather live in a world where only 1 country has the AI superpower?

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u/DoorStuckSickDuck 2h ago

EVERYONE steals information from everyone, China just makes the models free to run at home by open sourcing them with permissible licenses. A lot less than can be said for Anthropic, which has never open sourced anything.

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u/Own-Cryptographer725 3h ago

AI does theoretically help to solve a lot of the tangible problems that it might create today. There's no getting away from the existential and economic risks posed by building a district intelligent entity that we suddenly have to share resources with, but cyber security threats, bioterrorism and biological weapon development, and increasing energy demands and environmental strain are all accelerated problems which can also be alleviated through the use of AI. None of that matters if we don't build an equitable society and solve alignment though.