AI is dual use technology. This kind of posture is simply not tenable as frontier intelligence increases.

It's not only tenable, it is a necessity. Unless you want humanity to be enslaved in perpetuity to a single figurehead.

Bad AI is only countered by having a majority of good, open-access and open-source AI to keep it in check, where the good AI can overpower the bad. The moment you destroy that balance is the moment a bad actor gains exponential advantage and the ability to hold the whole world hostage forever.

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chatmasta 6 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

So are guns, which we constitutionally protected. In fact there’s probably a decent argument that AI should fall under 2nd amendment protection.

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ern 5 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Don’t legally serious second Amendment supporters regard “arms” as things that can be carried, and are evolved from/analogous to their 18th century hand-carried guns?

It would be hard to classify AI (or tanks, artillery, missiles, aircraft) as “arms” that can be “borne” in that sense.

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ajyoon 5 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Is your legal theory that any technology which is dangerous should be protected under the second amendment, simply because it is dangerous?

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chatmasta 5 hours ago | parent [-]

No, my legal theory is that you cannot simultaneously compare technology to a weapon and also say it falls outside the bounds of the 2nd amendment.

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		Dual use does not mean weapon. And even then, it is simply not the case that all weapons fall under the second amendment.
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		a tactical nuke is a weapon to which the second amendment has no applicability

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SilverElfin 5 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

It certainly falls under 1st amendment protection since LLMs are about accessing speech. But that hasn’t stopped Dario from trying hard to push for regulations and bans that limit our civil rights. He and Sam Altman want regulatory capture at the expense of our right to free speech.

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vzcx 4 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

> AI is dual use technology.

And? Computers are dual-use. Cars are dual-use. Telephones are dual-use. Freeze-dried chicken is dual-use.

Single-use, i.e. military only technology is actually pretty rare.

> This kind of posture is simply not tenable as frontier intelligence increases.

I reject the corpo speak that tries to brand these things as being "intelligent." They can be useful. But a language model cannot conjure a weapons platform from the ether no matter how "intelligent" it is.