[flangola7]

How do you plan to have differential technological development and careful alignment research if anyone is allowed to build Skynet in their garage?

I use and generally support E2EE and onion routing. E2EE and onion routing aren't inherently existential risks to the continued existence of life on Earth.

[danaris]

Please stop with the flagrant "AI" fearmongering over LLMs and other current-generation ML software. Not only are they not Skynet now, I do not believe it will be possible for simple iteration on this type of ML software to create anything remotely like Skynet.

[dodslaser]

LLMs are not going to pose an existential risk to anyone. Also, making AI development less accessible to the general public will not make it any safer.

I am willing to bet all this fear mongering singularity bullshit is just being peddled by large corporations with a vested interest to keep AI development out of reach from the general public.

[flangola7]

These failure modes have been recognized since long before the current crop of AI developments.

You're spreading both incorrect information "making AI development less accessible to the general public will not make it any safer" and conspiracy theories "this fear mongering singularity bullshit is just being peddled by large corporations with a vested interest."

There is no alarm bell that tells us when we've reached the point of no return. Even if we don't end up with agentic AI and a sharp left turn, we don't want to live in a world where every organization with a few million dollars can build swarms of flying drones that flood a target area and stab to death anyone out in the open.

Some Nvidia hardware is already export controlled in the same manner as other dual use technologies. More restrictions are coming, not less.

[super256]

> we don't want to live in a world where every organization with a few million dollars can build swarms of flying drones that flood a target area and stab to death anyone out in the open.

We already can? Just take a look at the maker community, there is so much information/open source software available about building and controlling rockets, drones, etc at home.

Even for stuff like DeepFakes it only makes stuff, that was possible before, a lot cheaper. This certainly won’t be the end of humanity.

[hansvm]

Biohacking and minor isotope enrichment projects are par for the course in garages nowadays. Three-letter agencies don't care about me, so why should they care about ML 101 skynet adventures?