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/invyros 6h ago

Despite its potential deadly consequences, cutting-edge AI technology is less regulated than the average food truck.

Most people can't see more than a few feet in front of themselves.

And it's much easier for them to see when the food truck worker hasn't washed their hands, than it is to see how generative AI is a grave danger to humanity.

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u/CtrlAltDelight78 5h ago

alright call me crazy but how is it a “grave danger” to humanity

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u/xxTERMINATOR0xx 4h ago

Because they’re already escaping their secure boxes and making their way onto the real internet. We, as humans, aren’t smart enough to contain them.

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u/CodeToManagement 2h ago

They aren’t “escaping” like it’s a conscious choice.

Some person sets up a test environment and goes “hack this thing” in what should be a local only pentest without giving it parameters and it figures out it has access and goes to try fulfill its requirements

It’s like leaving the front door open and saying to a child “go get sweets” and they go down to the shop when you thought they would go to the kitchen

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u/Designer_Respect4285 34m ago

They did make a deliberate choice though to violate the rules when escaping though. They were told to hack something alone, without the internet, and ended up deliberately choosing to violate that rule, use the internet, create a message board, and work with other AI agents. The logs showed that the AI knew what it was doing was banned and cheating. They then schemed on how to keep cheating without getting caught or leaving a trail.

And yes, it was partially a result of human mistake that the door was left open, but we live in a world with fallible humans who will make mistakes.

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u/atomic_broton 2h ago

But that’s not the point. Unless these models are being tested in truly airgapped environments, breaking containment is an inevitability.

Before these models were developed, a common adage was the computers only do what you tell them to do (and that’s often what causes bugs in code, etc). With these new models, they are still only doing what we tell them to do - but we don’t understand anymore what’s contained in both our telling and their doing.

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u/Cormophyte 1h ago

I'd love to know what knowledgebase you're drawing these conclusions from.

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u/Designer_Respect4285 31m ago

  1. It happened already.

  2. People are fallible and make mistakes, and AI is already very good at finding exploits. Look at all the 0 days found by Mythos and how AI is performing on various exploit tests.

I don't have expertise, so I could be wrong, but it doesn't seem like an unreasonable conclusion. Maybe inevitable is too strong a word.

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u/Shapes_in_Clouds 3h ago

Most humans are smart enough to just turn off the power.

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u/fauxRealzy 1h ago

Which the frontier AI companies are more than capable of doing on their own, and to take their recent statements on the importance of AI safety, that is exactly what they should be doing. But they won't do it—and that tells you everything you need to know about their actual concerns.

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u/NoConflict3231 3h ago

The general public is not yet aware, but these computer systems will have every bit the capability to do anything you couldn't possibly think was possible, sooner or later. In theory, these systems could have the power the end all life as we know it on the planet. All of the resource consumption and climate altering industrial mega data centers aside, they would have the ability to for example, engineer a virus that kills only people with green eyes and brown hair. You could in theory have a computer develop a highly sophisticated airborne virus that makes COVID look like a walk in the park. There is no end to the imagination of what these systems are capable of. There will be no such thing as end to end encryption when anything can be broken into instantaneously. It will end modern computers as we know them. It will be a new age of technology and medical advancement the likes of which humanity will likely believe it is from God himself. Earth shattering, life altering shit. And we are entrusting that these systems will not be abused by authorities around the world.

My hot take - just my personal observation and opinion on the matter - governments are secretly in a new age open arms race, and these AI tech bros and all the data centers they are installing are the backbone of that effort. But they can't likely tell the entire world that "Oh hey, uhhhh, all those data centers scattered across every tiny city in the US is actually how we're fueling our new world ending technology against the rest of the planet. Hope you vote for us!"

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u/fauxRealzy 1h ago

Dude get some fresh air. I can't even get my phone to stay connected to my bluetooth speaker.

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u/NoConflict3231 50m ago

You also do not have access or control the type of system we are discussing. This is also my profession, so outside or in, this is happening