U.S. Must Act Quickly to Avoid Risks From AI, Report Says
U.S. Must Act Quickly to Avoid Risks From AI, Report Says
The U.S. government must move “decisively” to avert an “extinction-level threat" to humanity from AI, says a government-commissioned report
The US acting fast to curtail corporate overreach just isn't going to happen. We stopped doing that in the 70s.
We stopped acting at all in the 2010s. GOP won't even pass legislation they asked for anymore.
That's the GOP MO. Grind literally everything to a halt until they control both houses and the executive branch, then cut taxes on the rich, cram in as many judicial appointments as possible and weaken regulatory bodies as much as they can. They've been running that playbook since the mid 00's.
Authorities should also “urgently” consider outlawing the publication of the “weights,” or inner workings, of powerful AI models, for example under open-source licenses, with violations possibly punishable by jail time, the report says
Fuck that, so only huge corporations can have access to it. You won't even be able to have start ups to challenge the behemoths because this would shut down any open scientific papers explaining how AI works to get started.
If you want to make a case this technology is an existential threat equivalent to nukes and any proliferation is dangerous then treat it like nukes and nationalize it and make it so only government can produce it. At least the government is nominally subject to the people instead of a bunch of companies who will happily destroy the world if it makes them an extra buck.
We're probably nowhere near that threat though so something like this would only serve to widen the gap between the current batch of huge AI companies and smaller scale developers and enthusiasts.
There's probably no way to let corporations own AGI without letting them own us all.
We could at the bare minimum sign the autonomous weapons treaty
This is exactly what the big AI companies want. This will kill open source and freely available AI and anything made with it, forcing the only available options to be proprietary and lucrative.
The U.S. government must move “quickly and decisively” to avert substantial national security risks stemming from artificial intelligence (AI) which could, in the worst case, cause an “extinction-level threat to the human species,” says a report commissioned by the U.S. government
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many say it will arrive in the next five years
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In other words, DARPA or a national lab have it, and China just figured it out or they're worried they're close.
I don't get the impression that the US government is on the cutting edge of AI development, although the Chinese government may be.
The US government works with companies like OpenAI, they sell them custom capabilities while learning more about the system and then eventually they build and improve their own systems for more sensitive operational abilities. DoD has been heavily involved in AI (specifically generative AI) publicly for years now so you can be assured it's been in research for at least a decsde.. Here's there github repo but you can find a lot of .mil PDF files talking about it too. https://github.com/deptofdefense/LLMs-at-DoD
DARPA and the National Labs (Lawrence Livermore National Lab, Oak Ridge, Brookhaven, etc. are the ones who pull scientists from universities to work there when their research is something that has a clear and present military application.
Also for the other guy talking about China not being good at AI or anything besides manufacture, here's some good examples of their GenAI propaganda at work. Now, this isn't actual AGI, which is what the article is worrying about, but it shows they've been working on these capabilities for some time and have an automated system for pushing messaging. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=3FQSFnZpsqw
I'm not sure if I'm worried more about AGI, or people I know, because agressive propaganda campaigns have been underway and are kicking up even more now, using LLMs and other GenAI.
The AI "threat" is probably the public reaction to AI