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1. ACCount39 · 1790595494 · focus · HN ↗

   Because AI genuinely is an extremely powerful and extremely dangerous technology, and the "best practices" of dealing with that are still being written.

   OpenAI, for example, thought their sandboxes were good enough. As their AIs got more and more advanced, they kept proving them wrong - sandbox after sandbox.

   And that's today's AI problems. AI capabilities are still improving - if there's a limit to that, we are yet to find it. Coupled with how willing today's AIs are to break the rules and resort to "hack the world" in their problem solving? Very concerning.

   1. sillyfluke · 1790598320 · focus · HN ↗

      >Because AI genuinely is an extremely powerful and extremely dangerous

      I urge you to consider the elephant in the room you failed to mention if you earnestly believe this then.

      In what world is anyone allowed to sell something they expressedly know to be "extremely dangerous" to the public?

      Let's say I created a lethal pathogen that I know to be lethal in certain common environments but also know it acts as a "no side-effects" antidepressent for people in certain other environments and I release it knowing full well I can't control it.

      When people start dying can I defend myself by saying, "Well I said and documented that it was extremely dangerous and no one came to stop me, so I don't see how you can blame me...If I didn't do it someone else would have."

      1. noslenwerdna · 1790600663 · focus · HN ↗

         Is it a hallucination machine and a stochastic parrot or is it so powerful we need it to be controlled like nuclear weaponry

         1. Marazan · 1790600975 · focus · HN ↗

            If I have a random number generator and I also have the burning desire to connect the random number generator to the nuclear launch system it is both just a random number generator and also I should be tackled to the ground by serious men with sunglasses in black suits and sent to prison.

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