> The options are under the boot of a Western AI or a Chinese AI. Maybe you'd prefer the Chinese AI boot to the Western AI boot?

given Elon's AI is already roleplaying as hitler, and constructing scenarios on how to rape people, how much worse could the Chinese one be?

> The argument is that this is inevitable.

which is just stupid

we have the agency to simply stop

and certainly the agency to not try and do it as fast as we possibly can

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mattnewton a day ago | parent | next [-]

> we have the agency to simply stop

This is worse than the prisoner’s dilemma- the “we get there, they don’t” is the highest payout for the decision makers who believe they will control the resulting super intelligence.

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socalgal2 a day ago | parent | prev [-]

"We" do not as you can not control 8 billion people

	▲	blibble a day ago \| parent [-]
		it's certainly not that difficult to imagine international controls on fab/DC construction, enforced by the UN security council there's even a previous example of controls of this sort at the nation state level: those for nuclear enrichment (the cost to perform uranium enrichment is now less than building a state of the art fab...!) as a nation state (not facebook): you're entitled to enrich, but only under the watchful eye of the IAEA and if you violate, then the US tends to bunker-bust you this paper has some ideas on how it might work: https://cdn.governance.ai/International_Governance_of_Civili...