alt Hacker NewsI 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 :/
> 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.
Yeah, exactly, and ultimately I think that's really the thrust of the point I was making.
And, to me, if I was just looking at this calmly as a decision about what the obvious direction seems to be, given these factors, it's pretty straightforward: deprecate the nation-states. They are the ones mucking up the whole system.
If the thing we're really concerned about is LLM-safety wrt warfare and weapons, then I'd much rather tell the (whining, childish, seemingly headed for self-destruction anyway) nation-states that they have to sit this next era of humanity out than have to nerf them for the rest of us (and as you point out, nerf them in a way that the nation-states won't abide anyway).