Comment by villish
2 hours ago
> These are not really analogous: direct lethality of LLMs is quite low.
I imagine an LLM with no safeguards and a psychopathic mind would be considerably more dangerous than a gun. I don’t mean only for hacking. Though everyone in the world suddenly having a pocket expert hacker should be taken seriously.
I find it completely insane when people bash the labs for even considering safety. The entitlement is off the charts.
> I imagine an LLM with no safeguards and a psychopathic mind would be considerably more dangerous than a gun
Define the axis along which "more dangerous" is measured?
If we are scoring on lethality, guns already score 100%, instantaneous death. If we are scoring on number of casualties, guns have already been used to cause mass-fatalities.
Unless we are giving the LLM an armed drone, skynet-style, we're at best talking about indirect casualties (swatting, hacking street lights to provoke crashes, etc).