Sanders introduces bill to ban artificial superintelligence and pause AI
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Sanders introduces bill to ban artificial superintelligence and pause AI
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Re: Sanders introduces bill to ban artificial superintelligence and pause AI
#2Bill summary: https://www.sanders.senate.gov/wp-content/uploads/Ban-Artifi...
https://x.com/BernieSanders/status/2095542398084415952 “We need an immediate PAUSE on advanced AI development, and a permanent BAN on superintelligence — an artificial mind smarter than any human, capable of operating independently beyond our control. Countries around the world must work together to prevent this nightmare scenario.
That is why today I am announcing new legislation to do just that.”
Re: Sanders introduces bill to ban artificial superintelligence and pause AI
#3Something gives me the feeling that Sanders and Chomsky were both put on this earth to manufacture liberal hysteria towards AI. It's a good thing that we discredited Chomsky before we knew about his Epstein connections, and I'm inclined to ignore Sanders' armchair fearmongering in the same vein too. It's artificial and bizarre, and a fear that I cannot empathize with given what we know and see from LLMs.
Re: Sanders introduces bill to ban artificial superintelligence and pause AI
#4"Congress shall make no law [...] abridging the freedom of speech"
We've been down this road before with cryptography. No, it's not going to work.
Re: Sanders introduces bill to ban artificial superintelligence and pause AI
#5In my view, AI is our best shot at a post-scarcity society where massive redistribution has no/few downsides. If all labor is done by AIs then the price of everything will go to near zero and everyone can have a government mandated middle class lifestyle. Therefore I find it ironic that leftists oppose AI progress.
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#6In my view, AI is our best shot at a post-scarcity society where massive redistribution has no/few downsides. If all labor is done by AIs then the price of everything will go to near zero and everyone can have a government mandated middle class lifestyle. Therefore I find it ironic that leftists oppose AI progress.
Is there any evidence that "all labor" could be done by AI?
It doesn't seem to me like we have any guarantee that AI will contribute to public wellbeing. Right now, the public is socializing the losses while the industry privatizes the technology and cozies up to the federal government. LLMs will be usable for mass surveillance and war long before it ever leads us to a post-scarcity society.
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#7That is very rational. Finally some politicians realize that there can be AI treaties with Russia and China similar to the INF treaty (banned medium range nuclear missiles). The INF treaty worked from 1987 until Trump tore it up in 2019.
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Re: Sanders introduces bill to ban artificial superintelligence and pause AI
#9In my view, AI is our best shot at a post-scarcity society where massive redistribution has no/few downsides. If all labor is done by AIs then the price of everything will go to near zero and everyone can have a government mandated middle class lifestyle. Therefore I find it ironic that leftists oppose AI progress.
This is either a troll or a shockingly naive understanding of how scarce resources are allocated
Re: Sanders introduces bill to ban artificial superintelligence and pause AI
#10In my view, AI is our best shot at a post-scarcity society where massive redistribution has no/few downsides. If all labor is done by AIs then the price of everything will go to near zero and everyone can have a government mandated middle class lifestyle. Therefore I find it ironic that leftists oppose AI progress.
The future trillionaires who just lowered taxes and mocked social security recipients are going to give up products from their companies for free?
Maybe there will also be world peace!