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Bernie Sanders proposes 20 year prison sentence for AI devs who plow ahead with Artificial Superintelligence plans - penalty on par with illegally developing rogue nuclear weapons (www.tomshardware.com)

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[–] ceenote@lemmy.world 1 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

I would say the use of the word "superintelligence" suggests he is buying into the hype, and is something "AI" companies will point at to say "See? Even our critics agree that AGI is on the way. Do you want to risk someone else making it first? Give us money and freedom from regulation or something something China."

The reality is that LLMs are not even something that can be used as an actual foundation for intelligence, and the problems with "AI" are just the next iteration of the owner class trying to use technology to fuck over the working class. The problems are economic and climate-related, and the best way to mitigate them is a realistic assessment of how much this technology is actually worth.

[–] jj4211@lemmy.world 3 points 9 hours ago* (last edited 9 hours ago)

Just saying that if I thought it could work, I might be inclined to use ASI as a bogeyman to induce people to actually do something to reign in this mess, even if I didn't believe it. Not saying that Bernie consciously employs this strategy, but it's a possibility.

Fair point about such a strategy potentially backfiring if it doesn't work fully, then the risk of 'the other guy' becomes a risk of making everything even worse.