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Re:US and UK refuse to sign AI safety declaration at summit by AnimalMuppet on Wednesday February 12, 2025 @05:25PM (#43030427)
Punish them severely when detected? Nice plan. What if they aren't in your jurisdiction? Are you going to punish them severely when they're in China? North Korea? Somalia? Good luck with that.

The problem is that the information can go anywhere that has an internet connection, and the enforcement can't.

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Re:US and UK refuse to sign AI safety declaration at summit by palmotea on Wednesday February 12, 2025 @05:30PM (#43030467)
> Punish them severely when detected? Nice plan. What if they aren't in your jurisdiction?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Opera

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2021_Natanz_incident

https://www.timesofisrael.com/israel-targeted-secret-nuclear...

If were talking about technology that "could go off the rails in a catastrophic way," don't dick around.

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Re:US and UK refuse to sign AI safety declaration at summit by chasd00 on Wednesday February 12, 2025 @05:38PM (#43030530)
well let's assume an airstrike is on the table, what site would you hit? AWS data centers in Virginia?
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Re:US and UK refuse to sign AI safety declaration at summit by palmotea on Wednesday February 12, 2025 @05:47PM (#43030609)
The point wasn't literally airstrike, it was don't get hung up over "jurisdiction" when it comes to "avoiding catastrophe." There are other options. Here are a few from the Israeli example, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assassination_of_Iranian_nucle..., https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stuxnet, but I'm sure there are other innovative ways to answer the challenge.
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Re:US and UK refuse to sign AI safety declaration at summit by wkat4242 on Wednesday February 12, 2025 @05:57PM (#43030699)
If they are in Virginia then it is within American jurisdiction and there's no need for military involvement.
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Re:US and UK refuse to sign AI safety declaration at summit by achierius on Thursday February 13, 2025 @10:19AM (#43036722)
That'd be within our jurisdiction. But yes, if, say, Ireland went rogue (in a hypothetical environment where most of the international community was aligned on this stuff) and attempted a straight shot to AGI, I think it'd be reasonable to bomb their datacenters.
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