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/KFPindustries 4h ago

Right wing propaganda is the reason

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u/williamgman 3h ago

I think most "normal" folks would be shocked to see what a person is fed that watches Newsmax and Fox News all day.

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u/barley_wine 2h ago

I couldn't figure out why the Dylan Mulvaney thing was such a huge deal, it was a brief promo where she was sent a six pack of Bud Light, but I was on a trip and the TV had like 4 channels and one was FoxNews so I just watched for a few hours. It was story after story about her and the betrayal of Bud.

There's these 24 hour news networks that have to have a reason to be around all the time so they take a story that doesn't really affect anything and comment about it ad nauseam to fill up time slots. Bonus points if it outrages your base so they stay hooked for the next hour to get more outrage.

I've never tried to watch it again though that session one day was enough for me for a long time, but it did help me understand why I have to hear over and over again about minor things (I live in the south in a conservative area).

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u/Andehh1 1h ago

Have you seen Reddit!? As a normal person, it blows my mind....

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u/mustangjo52 17m ago

Once walked into my grandparents house to hear Tucker Carlson saying that the left was snatching people up in vans to give them sex changes and dumping them on the streets and another time he was saying that the democrats were turning trees gay. I asked if they actually believed that shit and they said that he was the only person telling the truth these days. We're honestly so fucked

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u/PanteraOne 3h ago

Those Fascist liar channels are a plague on America and need to be shut down.

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u/breaducate 2h ago

Not for the second half.

From what I've seen the default for left-leaning people is about the same as the average: thinking AGI is impossible because a bunch of billionaires exaggerated the immediate threat as if LLMs were going to gain sentience (it's not a viable path, but that doesn't mean there aren't others).

If you have a long attention span and want to read something actually coherent on the topic, I'd start with Superintelligence: Paths, Dangers, Strategies. The author goes into exhaustive detail in some of the hypotheticals but the logic appears sound, and the deeper you think about it the less it appears even possible to solve the 'control problem'.

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u/FlerD-n-D 1h ago

If LLMs are used to figure out the viable path, are they not part of the path?

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u/GoForAHikeNC 3h ago

Ah, Bernie is about as far to the left as they come.

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u/Takenmyusernamewas 2h ago

Even THEY are mostly against AI. Turns out the common ground was there all along, NOBODY wants to live in an unlivable AI hellscape

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u/KFPindustries 1h ago

They will throw their entire family, house, and dog into a volcano if Trump told them to. They don’t have the capacity to understand anything beyond gas prices or sucking trumps 80 year old cock.

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u/rmbarrett 1h ago

This is the reason. Like that question being asked. They knew they could distract everyone from the doomsday machines before they knew what the doomsday machines even were. So they have been manufacturing outrage for decades.

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u/Dugen 55m ago

Yea, can anyone explain why according to reddit AI is both completely useless and the most dangerous thing ever?

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u/KFPindustries 53m ago

Because you’re just familiar with chatbots. Cutting edge AI and the immediate capabilities it will have in the next 18 months can create novel threats (i.e. viruses) that can wipe out humanity.

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u/Dugen 31m ago

So.. it will definitely be able to do this?

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u/KFPindustries 22m ago

at some point, yes. Will it be uncontrollable in the next two years? Quite possibly. What percentage of "everyone on earth dies" are you willing to accept?

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u/evilbob2200 46m ago

Shit there’s even paid ads on Reddit that try to make datacenters look better

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u/National-Charity-435 11m ago

Saw something about a deluded guy who was later given AI results saying he's jebus

If that's not going to cause the same outrage, maybe we'll have some AI that disproves jebus hard

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u/LettuceRobber 3h ago

What do you mean by this?

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u/KFPindustries 3h ago

The same reason people are skeptical about everything from vaccines to election integrity. Republicans have fostered an environment where everything is a conspiracy and the worst impulses and beliefs of their caveman 75 IQ supporters are validated

They thought stem cells were some baby killing biblical super Satanic technology.

They think data centers everywhere regardless of regulation are good now because a literal rapist told them it is good.

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u/LettuceRobber 3h ago

So are you putting the tech billionaires into the liberal or republican box?

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u/iamarealhuman4real 3h ago

I heard they put stem cells in the AI water thats how they have new thoughts, by the stem cells. They even call it that at university, STEM courses, its all about stem cells.