Jenson Huang (the CEO of NVidia) talks some sense on zero hedge. BT I love the term “AI Doom bros”. The fools that want to the gubmint to regulate themselves.
The CEOs behind frontier AI keep talking like bystanders – warning seemingly daily about ‘existential risk, runaway superintelligence, and competitive pressure’ that’s totally out of their control, so they need big brother to help slow them down.
They act like that, don’t they. It’s their shop, yet they give the Air Force salute explaining their malfeasance.
It’s their shop.
“If they say the alternative, which is: There is no way to contain our experiments… when we test our A.I. models, it will get out, and it will damage the world – then I think the answer is that we have to shut the labs down,” he said – framing this as a responsible engineering call.
“If you’re going to build a self-driving car – let’s say it’s a robo-taxi, and there’s a really difficult condition. As an engineer, we just have no idea how to solve this problem because these cars are not programmed, they’re trained. So we have no idea how to train these cars, and we have no idea how to align them to the safety standards that are expected on the road,” Huang said. “What’s the answer? Don’t ship it.” – Jensen Huang
If you build hte monster and it gets out of the cage, it’s on you bro.
We have laws for this.
Huang’s argument is about liability and responsibility to shareholders. A lab that damages the world, he argues, would face costs to humanity. “Because the cost to humanity, the damage is too great,” he said. “The shareholder, the liabilities – it could be civil liabilities, it could be criminal liabilities. I mean, the liability’s incredible.
Denniger is saltier, of course.
Well, just the other day an AI was exposed as hacking Australia’s health portal. That’s not some “abstract thing” as many people tried to play off like the HuggingFace hacking (although the criminal aspect of it is the same; both are quite-clearly violations of a felony criminal statute in the US, The Computer Fraud and Abuse Act) yet the firms in question were not indicted, none of their employees, directors or officers were arrested and none of that appears to be forthcoming…
While yes, the US Government has declined (thus far) to offer any sort of “nationalization” or “safety value” that would allegedly remove said liability it has in fact ignored said liability for already happened acts and these are not minor little incursions by any means just as was not hoovering up every copyrighted thing these AI companies could get their hands on which, I remind you, was also a criminal act because (1) many of the works were registered and (2) the act was undertaken with the motive of profit.
These laws, such as they are, are already on the books. If we add any more, I say we need to treat personal data, or data of any kind the same as a physical asset, and if it’s pilfered or looted, start sending these fools to jail.
I think this push for regulation is for these dudes to stifle the competition, which is a time honored thing. Back in the olden days they’d form a guild. They are ba-zillions in debt and still haven’t figured out how to get this new thing to pay.
