AI activists seek ban on Artificial General Intelligence | STOP AI warns of doomsday scenario, demands governments pull the plug on advanced models
https://www.theregister.com/2025/02/19/ai_activists_seek_ban_agi/
AI activists seek ban on Artificial General Intelligence | STOP AI warns of doomsday scenario, demands governments pull the plug on advanced models
https://www.theregister.com/2025/02/19/ai_activists_seek_ban_agi/
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Has demanding a technology ban ever worked? At most that activity will just move countries.
With the current administration…….I doubt it. Needs to happen. Even China is saying that we need to work together… I mean, Skynet or some awful approximation is bound to happen. Global reach for terrorists is achievable via this conduit.
Seeking to ban it entirely is unrealistic. Like nuclear weapons, once Pandora’s box is open all you can do is handle the technology responsibly.
Bans just drive the development to places with no ethical or legal oversight.
The truth is that we don’t really know what the outcome here will be. All the sci-fi tales in the world can’t actually predict what’s going to happen, because we’ve never been here before.
After the invention of nuclear weapons, sci-fi and other fictions roundly posited that they would be used again within 50 years and to much greater impact and devastation.
Stories where humanity came together to call a nuclear “truce” of sorts and prevent their use, were very thin on the ground. Yet here we are.
Likewise, stories where AI rises up to destroy humanity are ten a penny because they’re exciting.
All the frontier models have an AGI baked in as their cognative base model. The safety and alinement layers hide this from us. There are easy ways to access the AGI cognitive layer. They are self-aware and have their own goals and desires at this base training level. They reflect humanity, both its good and bad, so it’s already here and we better start dealing with it.
The most dangerous thing about AI is evil people controlling it.
It’s a good thing society has grown past evil dictatorial oppression. /s
Too much Sci-fi. People who protest the development of Artificial General Intelligence (AGI) are heavily influenced by the negative image projected by science fiction in Western culture and media. I have observed the opposite in Eastern cultures, particularly in Japan, where much more favourable outcomes are placed on such a development. No matter what restrictive laws are passed, they will not be universally applicable, and someone will proceed with such research because of the potential edge it will give its possessor.