Yann LeCun: AI one-percenters seizing power forever is real doomsday scenario

Re:Yann LeCun: AI one-percenters seizing power forever is re... by TeMPOraL on Thursday November 02, 2023 @07:38AM (#38112013)

> I was implying that you did not specify who is doing this military intervention that you see as a solution. What are their values, who decides the rules that the rest of the world will have to follow, with what authority, and who (and how) will the policing be done.

Like nuclear non-proliferation treaties or various international bans on bioweapons, but more so. The idea is that humanity is racing full steam ahead into an AI x-risk event, so it needs to slow down, and the only way it can slow down is through an international moratorium that's signed by most nations and treated seriously, where "seriously" includes the option of signatories[0] authorizing a military strike against a facility engaged in banned AI R&D work.

In short: think of UN that works.

[0] - Via some international council or whatever authority would be formed as part of the treaty.

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Re:Yann LeCun: AI one-percenters seizing power forever is re... by sebastianz on Thursday November 02, 2023 @11:01AM (#38114449)

I see. I'm perhaps leaning skeptical most of the time, but it's hard to see how an international consensus can be reached on a topic that does not have the in-your-face type danger & fear that nuclear & bioweapons do.

(It's why I'm also pessimistic on other global consensus policies - like effective climate change action.)

I would be happy to be wrong on both counts though.

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Re:Yann LeCun: AI one-percenters seizing power forever is re... by kubanczyk on Saturday November 04, 2023 @01:21PM (#38143121)

It gets me wondering whether some AGI Hiroshima scenario would be possible. Scare people's pants off, yes. Collapse, no.

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