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Outcry from big AI firms over California AI “kill switch” bill
(arstechnica.com)
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This bill targets AI systems that are like the ChatGPT series. These AIs produce text, images, audio, video, etc... IOW they are dangerous in the same way that a library is dangerous. A library may contain instructions on making bombs, nerve gas, and so on. In the future, there will likely be AIs that can also give such instructions.
Controlling information or access to education isn't exactly a good guy move. It's not compatible with a free or industrialized country. Maybe some things need to be secret for national security, but that's not really what this bill is about.
Yep nothing about censorship is cool. But for rampaging agi systems, a button to kill it would be nice. However it leads into a game and a paradox on how this could ever be achieved
I don't see much harm in a "kill switch", so If it makes people happy... But it is sci-fi silliness. AI is software. Malfunctioning software can be dangerous if it controls, say, heavy machinery. But we don't have kill switches for software. We have kill switches for heavy machinery, because that is what needs to be turned off to stop harm.