Comment by flavionm
16 hours ago
Yet we don't regulate computers so that they're rendered incapable of running software that can be used to hack into systems. Or said software, by the way. All we do is punish the people who use these tools to cause harm to others.
AI is much more comparable to that than to a car.
Is that right? You can't even sell software built to break copy protection. Can you legally sell software made to harm others?
You can still run someone over with a car. The analogy doesn't require absolute lack of capability to do harm.
Technically no, but you can distribute software, especially for free, that happens to break copy protection for one or more valid reasons, according to the law.
And, more importantly, we certainly don't try to limit the capabilities of computing that might be used to do those things. Given how AIs are very general purpose tools, the fact that they can be used to do something potentially harmful is too narrow a threat.
Nobody is trying to push for cars that automatically stop themselves from running over someone either, which would make for a more comparable analogy than cars with flamethrowers.