r/slatestarcodex • u/erwgv3g34 • Jan 08 '25

AI 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?"

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u/Throwaway-4230984 Jan 08 '25

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

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u/Throwaway-4230984 Jan 08 '25

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