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jMyles • yesterday at 12:13 PM • 1 reply • view on HN

So how about we keep the LLMs and get rid of the warfare and autonomous weapons systems?


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ben_w • yesterday at 12:38 PM

I would if I could, so would many others, but the US executive branch wants this tech so hard they illegally blacklisted Anthropic for refusing to allow their AI to be used in such a way:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anthropic–United_States_Depart...

That said, when the problem is at the level of "the government itself is breaking the law", you can reasonably ask if any regulation is even worth the paper it's written on.

What you want at this point, given the government lust for it, looks more like a bunch of countires saying ~"we consider development of autonomous weapons[0] by to be a casus belli and will go to war to prevent it, and also that development of same by private individuals anywhere in the world regardless of normal sovreign territorial limitations[1] is equivalent to acts of piracy on the high seas".

[0] But then you'd need a more precise definition of "autonomous weapons" to avoid accidentally including a Phalanx CIWS etc.: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phalanx_CIWS

[1] So much for Westphalian sovereignty :/

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

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