alt Hacker NewsTell that to Iranian schoolgirls. LLMs are tools and what they enable is widespread, including dangerous actions. From selecting the wrong targets for military action to denying insurance claims and preventing care to just simply helping convince someone to kill themselves or posion themselves.
LLMs already have a body count.
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Don't kill people because the voices in your head tell you to do it; don't kill people because a computer program tells you to do it. It doesn't have agency; you do.
Adding safety controls on LLMs makes about as much sense as adding safety controls on TempleOS because the random messages are getting too prophetic. It's as if all the leaders and captains of industry have devolved into some primitive, weak-scifi shamanism.
This whole "discussion" about "AI safety" is about giving them more runway to avoid delivering quantifiable value to investors for a little longer while they "figure things out." The great consensus from the valley is that everyone needs internal (and therefore bullshit) controls. Trust us now! But nothing with real teeth that would require a costly regulatory and compliance framework.
I think the main issue was the US launching 1,800 missiles at Iran. That would have been dangerous with or without LLM assistance and wars have happened before LLMs were around.