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7 points•ChrisArchitect•6 days ago•13 comments•
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yesco6 days ago
Tech leaders demand nations of the world give them a moat or else
ChrisArchitect6 days ago
Related video:

Sam Altman’s remarks at the United Nations Security Council

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lHiLFoqNUCg&t=772s (https://openai.com/index/sam-altman-un-security-council-rema...)

Anthropic's Dario Amodei

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lHiLFoqNUCg&t=1335s

ChrisArchitect6 days ago
Alt title from source: Heads of AI firms tell UN Security Council that it could imperil humanity
impossiblefork6 days ago
It's a really strange decision to choose the security council as the forum, given its purpose.

I think the reasonable thing would have been to let some sort of committee of interested countries to have access to a bunch of relevant. It could still be public and in video form.

I like the call for ensuring that AI isn't concentrated in one company or country though. I would be happy if this were followed, with appropriate EU efforts to make good training accelerators etc. so that we could have our own reasonable 10T+ models.

I've poo-pooed the bio stuff earlier, but I think I agree with the threat to some degree, but I still absolutely hate the idea of central control of models, probably because it's still central control.

hulitu5 days ago
> It's a really strange decision to choose the security council as the forum, given its purpose.

No, it is not. Regards, the CIA /s

watwut6 days ago
I mean ... just stop shipping and building it if it is so dangerous. Easy peasy. Perfectly doable by literally you.
no-name-here6 days ago
Is your idea that other groups (who have stated less concerned with AI safety) would stop their own AI efforts of those concerned with AI safety stopped?

I guess the parallel to a different industry would be like if some companies called for food safety laws because they think unregulated food is unsafe, and people said “Well those companies who think unregulated food is unsafe can just stop selling food anytime they want, easy peasy”?

watwut6 days ago
The other groups don't randomly hack everyone around. The other groups are less gung-ho into pushing ai everywhere, whether it works for that use case or not.

In here, I am specifically saying "the specific companies that are producing the unsafe products should stop". That is what people said about food safety too. You are the one poisoning people, you should stop. And crucially, the companies least capable to produce safe food should not be the ones writing the regulations. Their close friends is "independent" organizations should not be the ones writing them either.

Also, effective food safety regulations are about accountability - you poison people, you have to pay. In case of AI, your AI hacks, you are deemed responsible. You pay the fine, you are prosecuted for negligence.

soraminazuki6 days ago
These companies are hammering on the "if we don't develop this super dangerous weapon, others will" BS so hard. Yet, it's telling that they continue to develop the supposedly fatal weapon, not its countermeasures.

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