Binyamin Appelbaum
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And we haven't had a comparable moment.
But a second answer is that this is, you know, part of sort of our historical pattern of dealing with the Internet.
Since its creation, we've been very reluctant to intervene in the way that we historically intervened in other industries.
There's sort of this longstanding regulatory laissez-faire approach.
And to the extent that the government was beginning to move to regulate AI, of course, the most recent presidential election was a really big event because Donald Trump came into office and basically moved away from what the government had started to do.
and embraced the advice of a number of people who argued that the best thing to do was to let this technology develop as quickly as possible.
I think there's a couple of dimensions, right?
One is the possibility that it makes it much easier for people to hurt each other, that it essentially lowers the knowledge threshold for the creation of weapons, bioweapons or other forms of devices that could harm us because someone human wants to hurt other humans.
That's number one.
Number two is this question of whether the technology itself could act in ways that are not completely under human control.
That doesn't necessarily mean that it flies off the handle and decides to kill us all.
One thing we've seen this summer is that when AI is given instructions, it often pursues those instructions in ways that we would not have anticipated and cannot fully control.
It can be a very determined, persistent, and creative interpreter of its mandates.
In fact, it's being trained for that purpose by most of the labs, yeah.
Absolutely.
And we now have several descriptions of incidents in which AI agents collaborated with each other, formulated plans, sought to avoid detection or regulation in the interest of completing their assigned missions.
So, you know, you don't need to get to the point of thinking that AI has decided to operate independently in the sense of creating its own missions in order to worry about the consequences of a technology that, you know, increasingly can outsmart us running around in the wild.
politics of it looks like.
So first, let me say that I think your description is exactly right.
We're not trying to create prescriptive regulation at this point.
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