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agd 4 hours ago

Huge amount of skepticism on HN right now, but the models are increasingly capable, and there are real, significant risks.

The approach proposed by Amodei looks sensible - voluntary checks at frontier labs, and appropriate regulation to follow. Yes, the devil's in the details, but it feels like the right approach overall.

jacobgold 4 hours ago | parent | next [-]

> The approach proposed by Amodei looks sensible...

It's hard to imagine any government regulation that didn't look sensible on paper and at first. But we know that government regulation has an extremely mixed record, with lots of good and bad outcomes.

laimewhisps 4 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

The largest risk is that Anthropic and OpenAI have a monopoly on the SOTA. This is why you see these companies trying so hard to get regulatory capture. For the rest of us, we want access as equitable as possible.

vrganj 4 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Turns out the EU was right all along with the AI act. They've been adopting a well-deserved "told you so" stance lately:

> "In my view, the EU has already legislated for exactly this scenario: it is called the AI Act," said Michael McNamara, an Irish European Parliament lawmaker, who's the co-lead of the Parliament's group monitoring AI.

https://www.politico.eu/article/eu-response-ai-extinction-wa...

the_optimist 4 hours ago | parent [-]

The EU is not leading anything. They may as well just commit to becoming a subsistence agricultural society with EPCOT heirlooms on display.

vrganj 4 hours ago | parent [-]

If the rest of the world follows them on regulations they've thought through before anyone else, then I don't know what you would call that other than leading? Like, definitionally that's what leading is.

It's interesting you're so derisive of actual, pragmatic leadership, of y'know deciding how we as a society will relate to new technologies - not just unthinkingly building gadgets.

nsdkdkdkfk 3 hours ago | parent [-]

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