Yoshua Bengio is a brilliant researcher who contributed enormously to earlier development of artificial intelligence. But with this sentence, > They took actions that would be considered as crimes if a human took them He is so close to the solution but spends the entire article discussing technical solutions where a political, social and legal solution would be much more effective.
That is a simplistic view of the world. “Surely this complex technical challenge will disappear if we simply regulate the industry!” You are correct that these organizations should be held accountable in proportion to what occurred. In complete agreement here. But let’s say that’s done. There’s still an enormously complex and interesting technical challenge left over. Let’s collectively talk about that part.
So the gov reprimands OAI heavily, maybe puts them out of business even, fine. But does that meaningfully decrease the likelihood of an enemy breaching our networks intentionally (or unintentionally) with these tools, or triggering some cascading disaster of locking up major infra and networks due to uncontainable swarm behavior?
It seems like the idea of arresting our way to a drug free society. Yeah, we have the laws, but it might not actually work towards the ultimate goal.