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1. plastic-enjoyer · 1791069186 · focus · HN ↗

   >“Given today’s risks, frontier labs need to run like nuclear-power plants or busy airports, with layers of redundancy and careful, time-consuming planning, so that the occasional and inevitable human error does not open a door to disaster,” he wrote.

   This sounds more like an attempt at regulatory capture. Current AI systems aren't physical infrastructure that can just run away like a nuclear power plant, for example. At the end of the day, AI is still just software running on someone's hardware.

   1. Sharlin · 1791071454 · focus · HN ↗

      Why would the people who quit these companies try to push regulatory capture by said companies? Why would the numerous independent AI researchers do that either? Is it all a big conspiracy?

      1. RobGR · 1791134537 · focus · HN ↗

         Because they still have stock in the companies, and in a larger sense, are very personally invested in AI being big and important as possible.

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