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Re:Why aren't AI companies being charged for hacking? by vrganj on Monday October 12, 2026 @11:11AM (#50057604)
It feels like plotting to end the world should be a crime, but maybe that's just me?
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Re:Why aren't AI companies being charged for hacking? by gruez on Monday October 12, 2026 @11:19AM (#50057712)
No AI lab thinks their AI is going to end the world, just that if they don't beat the other AI labs, the other labs' AI are going to end the world, so they can't slow down their own development to be maximally safe. Hence the whole "pacing the frontier" letter.
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Re:Why aren't AI companies being charged for hacking? by goatlover on Monday October 12, 2026 @12:18PM (#50058627)
If there's a real chance (say 10% or greater) that one of the AI labs is going to end the world, then yeah it should be a crime to continue advancing the technology. A few people are potentially putting the entire world at risk without everyone else's permission, by their own p(doom) admission.

I'm real skeptical about p(doom) arguments, but since they seem to believe it and they're the ones working on it, the technology should be halted.

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Re:Why aren't AI companies being charged for hacking? by gruez on Monday October 12, 2026 @12:24PM (#50058713)
>If there's a real chance (say 10% or greater) that one of the AI labs is going to end the world, then yeah it should be a crime to continue advancing the technology.

>but since they seem to believe it and they're the ones working on it, the technology should be halted.

Again, you're missing the dynamic that stopping AI development yourself doesn't mean that others' AI development will also halt, and other labs has higher P(doom) than your lab (of course!).

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Re:Why aren't AI companies being charged for hacking? by vrganj on Monday October 12, 2026 @12:45PM (#50059080)
Stopping yourself from committing a crime generally doesn't stop others from doing so. That's not your responsibility though.
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Re:Why aren't AI companies being charged for hacking? by wmorgan on Monday October 12, 2026 @11:20AM (#50057724)
Not just you! Very popular position, not as popular as rule of law but we don't have to choose one or the other. Let's just go ahead and make it a crime, right away.
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Re:Why aren't AI companies being charged for hacking? by louthy on Monday October 12, 2026 @11:25AM (#50057806)
Is the rule of law popular in the US? I thought it had been disposed of as “an inconvenience”?

At least that’s what it looks like from the rest of the world

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Re:Why aren't AI companies being charged for hacking? by dpkirchner on Monday October 12, 2026 @11:48AM (#50058147)
Yeah, I've often "joked" with my friends that were in a post-law period, at least at the federal level.
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Re:Why aren't AI companies being charged for hacking? by voakbasda on Monday October 12, 2026 @11:42AM (#50058051)
Rule of law is popular everywhere, but show a place where the has not been corrupted into tyranny and despotism. I would like to live there please.
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Re:Why aren't AI companies being charged for hacking? by nativeit on Monday October 12, 2026 @12:00PM (#50058331)
New Zealand, off the top of my head. If you can’t find examples, you aren’t looking.
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Re:Why aren't AI companies being charged for hacking? by vrganj on Monday October 12, 2026 @11:29AM (#50057864)
Isn't conspiracy to commit mass murder already a crime? And wouldn't this fit the bill if they were truly ending the world?
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