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Establishment of the U.S. Artificial Intelligence Safety Institute

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Re: Establishment of the U.S. Artificial Intelligence Safety Institute

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Post by andy_xor_andrew »

az09mugen wrote: post #10
qualifiedai wrote: post #2

Let's shoot US innovation and leadership in the foot by establishing random limits on foundation model research. According to EO's guidelines on commpute, something like GPT4 probably falls under reporting guidelines. Also, in the last 10 years GPU compute capabilities grew 1000x. What will be happening even 2 or 5 years from now? Edit: yes, regulations are necessary but we should regulate applications of AI, not fun…

You write it like there is litteraly 0 risk. Are you aware there are some malicious deviations already possible with AI ? Edit : Totally agree with qualifiedai's edit

> Are you aware there are some malicious deviations already possible with AI ?

Alright, you hooked me in. What are they?

Re: Establishment of the U.S. Artificial Intelligence Safety Institute

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Post by cscurmudgeon »

az09mugen wrote: post #10
qualifiedai wrote: post #2

Let's shoot US innovation and leadership in the foot by establishing random limits on foundation model research. According to EO's guidelines on commpute, something like GPT4 probably falls under reporting guidelines. Also, in the last 10 years GPU compute capabilities grew 1000x. What will be happening even 2 or 5 years from now? Edit: yes, regulations are necessary but we should regulate applications of AI, not fun…

You write it like there is litteraly 0 risk. Are you aware there are some malicious deviations already possible with AI ? Edit : Totally agree with qualifiedai's edit

You write like there are 0 other countries.

Re: Establishment of the U.S. Artificial Intelligence Safety Institute

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Post by cscurmudgeon »

__loam wrote: post #20
jprete wrote: post #14

Earlier quoted context omitted.

China’s government is extremely interested in restricting their AI efforts because they don’t want it to contradict the Communist party.

Yeah people bringing up China as if it's some bastion of freedom in comparison to us are hilarious.

No one did that. That is a straw man. People are less free but govt and institutions aligned with govt are more free.

Re: Establishment of the U.S. Artificial Intelligence Safety Institute

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Post by paganel »

lordleft wrote: post #12

Alarming how many people think that the development of AI should have…no government oversight? Are none of you familiar with history?

One of the problems is that the (very big) companies that will most benefit as a result of this type of measures are de facto functioning as an extension of the government (both in the US and in the EU) when it comes to employing AI in the field, so getting back at those (very big) companies with "this use of AI is against the rules!" won't have any discernible effect (because it would be like telling the government that is is breaking its own rules, i.e. futile).

Re: Establishment of the U.S. Artificial Intelligence Safety Institute

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Post by swatcoder »

qualifiedai wrote: post #2

Let's shoot US innovation and leadership in the foot by establishing random limits on foundation model research. According to EO's guidelines on commpute, something like GPT4 probably falls under reporting guidelines. Also, in the last 10 years GPU compute capabilities grew 1000x. What will be happening even 2 or 5 years from now? Edit: yes, regulations are necessary but we should regulate applications of AI, not fun…

Mature corporations need liability protection in order to operate. As "AI" tools become widespread, they're going to want and then require assurance that liability for using those tools falls on somebody else.

A healthy regulatory body provides for that by setting standards and holding the relatively few vendors liable for conformance rather than the countless users.

It does interfere with innovation for those vendors doing foundational research, but it enables richly funded innovation in applications. It seems like we're at a point where lots of people want to start working on applications using current/near technology; failure to provide them the liability protections they need is what will stifle practical, commercial innovation and would leave AI applications in the hands of the few specialist technology companies who are confident in their models and have the wealth to absorb any liability issues that arise.

Re: Establishment of the U.S. Artificial Intelligence Safety Institute

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Post by ethanbond »

andy_xor_andrew wrote: post #31
az09mugen wrote: post #10

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You write it like there is litteraly 0 risk. Are you aware there are some malicious deviations already possible with AI ? Edit : Totally agree with qualifiedai's edit

> Are you aware there are some malicious deviations already possible with AI ? Alright, you hooked me in. What are they?

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/scammers-ai-mimic-voices-loved-...

https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-66983194

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