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It's Time to Investigate the AI Labs

629 points · 277 comments · ibobev

  1. jimmyjazz14 · · focus · HN ↗
    > We must move past vague discussions of “AI” and instead isolate the specific types of systems that are creating problems.

    This is absolutely correct and its surprising how rarely you see commenters in the media push to go into the specifics on this. AI is just matrix math and its what you connect that math to that matters, we should talk a little more about what we are willing to connect AI to and little less about how scary or capable the models appear.

    1. throwitaway222 · · focus · HN ↗
      But you can't stop someone from connecting AI to something at this point, so your point is moot.
      1. egypturnash · · focus · HN ↗
        You could say it's illegal to connect AI to something, with heavy penalties if you're caught doing it anyway.

        You could say that the human who hooked up an AI that did something that's already illegal is liable for the AI's actions. You could say that setting up an AI to do something illegal results in, ooh, an automatic multiplier of 10x on whatever the penalty for its illegal actions are.

        1. fcarraldo · · focus · HN ↗
          We don’t even need to jump straight to legal penalties - why not just regulate that these companies can’t build partnerships with organizations in designated risky/regulated industries such as biotech, defense, etc?

          Instead of what they are doing now, which appears to be actively courting as many of them as possible for vast sums of money.

          1. jagged-chisel · · focus · HN ↗
            You need penalties in the regulations preventing these partnerships. Without penalties, there’s no force behind the regulations.
            1. fcarraldo · · focus · HN ↗
              Sorry, let me clarify. Regulations should have legal penalties for the corporations who violate them, yes.

              What I meant was that we do not need to go from the Wild West straight to “anyone who, as an individual, connects a `bad thing` to an LLM will go to jail”

              1. classified · · focus · HN ↗
                Why not?
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