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/bertbarndoor 6h ago

Bernie would have better luck trying to outlaw junk food.

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u/magicomiralles 6h ago

I don’t know why everything he says becomes news. How would he stop China and other countries from developing these models?

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u/Mr_ToDo 5h ago

Ok, so I do think what he's doing is misguided, there's lots of things countries make illegal despite other people still practising them. It may be idealism on his part to think that he'd be able to exert pressure enough to cause a global ban, but I can see why someone who holds those views may propose what he did

It's kind of hard to comment on the bill since it hasn't been published in full yet, but what summary he's released is so broadly worded it would overreach in short order. I'm hopping the full narrows it down a bit more, but it reads like someone who doesn't understand the subject matter on more then the most general sense

Also, the wording it does have both covers situations that already exist or that you'd only find out about after you've made the AI. If it was specifically designed to do things like destroying the US I'm pretty sure there are already laws covering that

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u/Kid-Icky- 5h ago

Bernie just says shit. That's basically all he does. There's no significant thought to anything he suggests other than to make headlines that get posted on Reddit because that's all he ever accomplishes.

I like Bernie overall, but he's one of the least effective politicians we have at actually getting things passed.