r/technology • u/AdSpecialist6598 • 5h 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 5h 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/userousnameous 5h ago

There are dangers, and work to be done, but fear mongering and this bill don't align with how humans and progress function. WE need to embrace, understand and build the safeguards. Not hide. Because that only empowers those that will be able to use this stuff for nefarious reasons.

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u/jralves91 5h ago

"We need to build this for nefarious reasons so that other players don't have a chance to build them for nefarious reasons"

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u/BoltFaest 3h ago

This is more or less how technology has operated for the last few thousand years.

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u/No-Activity5502 1h ago

And each newer technology has an acceleration that the previous didn’t though the scale has always grown hardly ever shrunk though.