Researcher: To Stop AI Killing Us, First Regulate Deepfakes
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AI researcher Connor Leahy says regulating deepfakes is the first step to avert AI wiping out humanity

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/10961870

To Stop AI Killing Us All, First Regulate Deepfakes, Says Researcher Connor Leahy::AI researcher Connor Leahy says regulating deepfakes is the first step to avert AI wiping out humanity

    • kibiz0r@midwest.socialOPEnglish
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      10 months ago

      We should probably tease apart AGI and what I prefer to call “large-scale computing” (LLMs, SD, or any statistical ML approach

      AGI has a pretty good chance of killing us all, or creating massive problems pretty much on its own. See: instrumental convergence.

      Large-scale computing has the potential to cause all sorts of problems too. Just not the same kinds of problems as AGI.

      I don’t think he sees LSC as an x-risk. Except maybe in the sense that a malicious actor who wants to provoke nuclear war could do so a bit more efficiently by using LSC, but it’s not like an LSC service is pulling a “War Games”.

      What he’s proposing is:

      • Since AGI is an extinction risk…
      • and the companies pursuing it are pushing LSC along the way…
      • and some of the problems caused by LSC will continue to be problems with AGI…
      • and we have zero international groundwork for this so far…
      • then we should probably start getting serious about regulating LSC now before AGI progress skyrockets as quickly as LSC did

      And why not? LSC already poses big epistemic/economic/political/cultural problems on its own, even if nobody had any ambitions toward AGI.