kirbymuncher posted...
I think you're being a little too negative? We have managed to ban or mostly-ban a surprising number of things as a global society before even when those conflict with economic interests or the desires of those in power: slavery, the mining of antarctica, ozone destruction/ocean waste dumping / other environmental stuff, commercial whaling, etc
That is true also, humanity has progressed very much
despite
everything else. I mean I don't know if these are the examples I would pick, some of these are still problems, even big problems, but point taken. More importantly though I wasn't being pessimistic, just realistic. This is just what we have to deal with. It's not the end of the world. Or at least it doesn't have to be.
To be clear, when I talk about regulating AI I am thinking of things on this scale, not some lame local government being like "oh hmm I guess your AI can do this, but not do that...". I mean things like international bans on large scale data centers, bans on reasoning agents above a certain size, bans on production of high tier GPUs, etc
If you look at AI as a faction of warfare / the military (which I don't think is totally unreasonable either) there are tons of other banned weaponry related stuff that just provides even more precedent for this.
This is what I don't understand. Look at AI as a faction of warfare... why? Don't you realize that with statements like these all you're doing is
admitting that you have already defeated yourself
?? With a few words you just GAVE it to them! They barely had to say or do anything!
All of technology is like this. I mean I would understand if we were talking about
guns
at least. Actual weapons. But AI? Seriously?? Why would you cripple yourself like that and expect those who have never played by the rules, who have made their living by making the rules that benefit them above others to play fair??