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Bernie Sanders proposes 20 year prison sentence for AI devs who plow ahead with Artificial Superintelligence plans - penalty on par with illegally developing rogue nuclear weapons (www.tomshardware.com)
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[–] 29 points 2 weeks ago (9 children)

Do you think this gives the AI companies more credit than they are due? It implies they actually have the ability to achieve this, and I just don't think they do.

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  • [–] 9 points 2 weeks ago* (3 children)

    AI is, in fact, an existential threat.

    The issue isn't that AI is super intelligent. The issue is that AI is super dumb.

    The reason it's an existential threat is that humans are dumb too, and we've been caught numerous times putting dumb AI in charge of automating very important decisions that affect life and death.

    Legislators are writing laws with AI. Police are using AI to determine who to arrest. Lawyers are arguing cases with AI. Judges are basing their decisions with AI. Militaries are automatically generating and approving assassination lists with AI. And the leaders of the most powerful military in the world is now working to build autonomous weapons with AI.

    Shortly after the US bombed a girl's school that was targeted with AI, the UN had a meeting to discuss how to regulate the use of AI in war. There was no discussion of banning it. Even the UN is planning to use AI in weapons of war. This is an existential threat to all life on earth.

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  • [–] 4 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

    I don't like saying ai is a threat, I feel it lends credibility to the magic 8-ball child porn machine. I think we should focus on making people who claim it has use for anything besides masturbation feel like idiots.

    we we're doing fine accidentally bombing things prior to now: https://www.atomicarchive.com/almanac/broken-arrows/index.html

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  • [–] 2 points 2 weeks ago

    The difference is "autonomous weapons"

    Imagine a self charging drone flying around autonomously and deciding on its own who to kill. But it hallucinates (because AI is dumb) and frequently thinks that school children are valid military targets.

    Now imagine tens of thousands of them, like we're seeing in Ukraine and Russia. All autonomous murder bots hallucinating around the globe.

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  • [–] -1 points 2 weeks ago

    Maybe they don’t, but that’s a hell of a gamble in the name of…slop and pornification?

    Maybe they don’t have the ability to achieve this, but at the very least they have certainly built the one that could build the one that can achieve it.

    This would all be a little less concerning if robotics wasn’t racing ahead at leaps and bounds at the same time.

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    • [–] 21 points 2 weeks ago

    TIL that planning to murder the entire human race could have the same average sentencing length as murdering a single individual.

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    [–] 19 points 2 weeks ago

    Sigh. If only Bernie hadn't been screwed by his own party.

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    [–] 14 points 2 weeks ago*

    And multiply that for the tech CEOs and managers of those devs.

    All these self-declared Oppenheimers claiming that "AI will kill us" should be listened to when they keep working on that, and treated accordingly: as terrorists with nuclear weapons.

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    [–] 9 points 2 weeks ago

    On second read i find it suspicous that elon and altman agree. My only thought is they are hitting a road block in terms of progress and rather pretend they are slowing down, instead of being truthful and risking their IPOs.

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    [–] 3 points 2 weeks ago*

    Nothing makes sense and everyone's motives are opaque.

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    [–] 2 points 2 weeks ago*

    Hell yeah now we are talking. Make it a mandatory minimum sentence of 20 years with no parole too. They are on par with murders and pedos.

    I love Bernie and everything he does but sometimes I worry he wasn't really pushing for the right things.

    This sounds like a step in the right direction.

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