Comment by TekMol
2 years ago
The dangerous thing about AI regulation is that countries with fewer regulations will develop AI at a faster pace.
It's a frightening thought: The countries with the least regulations will have GAI first. What will that lead to?
When AI can control a robot that looks like a human, can walk, grab, work, is more intelligent than a human and can reproduce itself - what will the country with the least regulations that created it do with it?
> The dangerous thing about AI regulation is that countries with fewer regulations will develop AI at a faster pace.
"but countries without {child labour laws, environment regulation, a minimum wage, slavery ban} will out compete us!"
That could indeed be:
https://www.google.com/search?q=gdp%20china
It will always be more expensive to care about human suffering than to not. So maybe competing within capitalism isn't the only thing that matters.
Largely true in sectors that are encumbered by those rules. US has effectively no rare earth mines due to environmental impact, labor intensive manufacturing all left... Of course it could be worth it though, pretty easy to argue it has been.
> labor intensive manufacturing all left...
It has also been leaving China for a while. You cannot hope to compete with the poorest country on labor cost, it's not a matter of regulation (well unless we're talking about capital control, but it's a completely different topic)
Does it feel as ridiculous if you s/ai/nuclear weapons/?
The people worried about AI are worried that the first country that achieves ASI will achieve strategic dominance equivalent to the US as of 1946.
No, the people worried about AI are worried that the first country that achieves ASI will achieve strategic dominance equivalent to accidentally releasing an engineered super-pathogen, causing an unstoppable, world-ending pandemic.
Heh. US’ strategic dominance is not due to nuclear weapons.
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I guess they will just unplug it? the fact that they need large amounts of electricity, which is not trivial to make, makes them very vulnerable. power is usually the first thing to go in a war. not to mention there is no machine that self replicates. full humanoid robots are going to have an immense support burden the same way that cars do with complex supply chains. I guess this is the reason nature didn't evolve robots
This neglects both basic extrapolation and basic introspection.
That is exactly what I'm accusing you of. The burden of proof is on you, so by all mean extrapolate all the way to our extinction.
"Just unplug it" works only if you realize that the AGI is working against your interests. If its at least human level intelligent it's going to realize that you will try doing that and it will only actually make it clear it wants to kill you when there's nothing you can do about it.
OK, outline how we get to that situation?
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Also the countries where the highest level of standardization imposed by law will see highest AI use in SMBs, where most of the growth comes from.
Probably not. The countries that are furthest ahead seem to be the US, China, maybe a bit in the UK. The US will probably win in spite of being more regulated than China, as usual for most tech.
Commercially, this is true. But governments have a long history of developing technologies (think nuclear/surveillance/etc) that fall under significant regulation.
Yes, a frightening thought, but it sounds like a movie script:
Somehow people smart enough to build something fantastical and seemingly dangerous, but not smart enough to build in protections and controls.
It's a trope, not reality. And GAI is still speculation.
https://www.ucsusa.org/resources/brief-history-nuclear-accid...
Could you tell us what world-wide event happened in the years 2020-2022?
When the US crafts regulation the world follows or is sanctioned. See: drug scheduling.
Then why couldn't the US prevent nuclear weapons from spreading around the world?
https://www.visualcapitalist.com/cp/nuclear-warheads-by-coun...
I mean, the animated chart shows that the US consistently had a couple orders of magnitude more nukes than any other country besides USSR/Russia. I'm not sure this makes the point you think it's making.
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