alt Hacker NewsIf this law was passed and federal enforcement was credible, the labs would basically shut down the next day and would dramatically reshape their offerings before reopening. The CEO would not accept the risk they pose to our society, if they bore it themselves.
All these comments ignore the elephants in the room I already called out: who's going to enforce these laws in China? Or Russia?
And which government is going to enforce these laws here to let their geopolitical adversaries have the upper hand?
And what about the models already out there that with minor tweaks are equally capable of substantial damage?
And what do these laws do to remove the trillion-dollar incentive to produce models that will replace all knowledge work? The one thing economics teaches us is that incentives are an inexorable force, like laws of nature, and this is the biggest incentive of all. Which is why I called this a "force of economics."
If suppressed here this effort will only migrate to other countries who are desperate to get in on the AI game and are even less aligned with the US than these CEOs.
This, like nukes, is going to take international collaboration on careful regulations, else it's not going to work at all.