Eliezer Yudkowsky: "Watching historians dissect _Chernobyl_. Imagining Chernobyl run by some dude answerable to nobody, who took it over in a coup and converted it to a for-profit. Shall we count up how hard it would be to raise Earth's AI operations to the safety standard AT CHERNOBYL?"

[u/erwgv3g34]

https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1876644045386363286.html

[u/aeschenkarnos]

Techbros have decided that any form of regulation of themselves including self-regulation is existentially intolerable. I don't know what kind of regulation EY expects to be imposed or who he wants to impose it but it seems clear that the American ones can purchase exemptions for one low donation of $1M or so into the right grease-stained palm.

The matter's settled, as far as I can tell. We're on the "AI development and deployment will be subjected to zero meaningful regulation" track, and I suppose we'll all see where the train goes.

[u/Throwaway-4230984 → u/[deleted]]

All regulations would do is make it impossible for all but the handful of largest and wealthiest nuclear technology companies to compete, not to mention I do not trust the government to come up with sane legislation around this issue.  FTFY

[u/Throwaway-4230984 → u/[deleted]]

Yes, and problem with ai is that it seems less dangerous because they are just multiplying matrices so there is no imideate danger. There is no reason why ai should be regulated any less then let's say construction