Comment by Rover222

13 hours ago

What damage was done by the last arms race you mentioned?

There have been precisely 0 nuclear weapons detonated (outside of testing) since that arms race began.

But isn't it a bit different? Unaligned bombs didn't break out of their confines on their own. And "compute" is a bit harder to control than uranium and refinement tech.

  • >Unaligned bombs didn't break out of their confines on their own.

    You really buy that ridiculous argument that "the AI broke out of its sandbox! We had no idea! It's dangerous I tell you, dangerous! Unless you make us the sole gatekeepers of this incredibly dangerous 'intelligence', everybody gonna die!"

    Please.

    Bring the CFAA[0] hammer down on these guys and watch how fast those "uncontrollable" LLMs get controlled. "Oh, gee! Prison? We can't control this stuff...but it'll never happen again!"

    That whole thing was, and is, a bunch of hooey. Those running the LLMs are entirely responsible for them, there is no such thing as agency for algorithms. Full stop.

    [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer_Fraud_and_Abuse_Act