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by pjc50 1132 days ago
> So long as they ares aligned so as not to be deleterious to the security of our communities.

Whose community, though?

> They don't want a disgruntled employee of some small town factory asking models how to make a bomb

A lesson from the Unabomber (and many other incidents) that I think people have overlooked is the "_how_ to commit terrorism" is only one part, and the "_why_ commit terrorism" is another. An AI which tells you that the factory is controlled by paedophile terrorists and that you have a moral duty to act against them, but refuses to tell you how, is just as dangerous as one that tells you how to build a bomb without asking why.

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Those two points do not seem equal weight in risk, but they are both concerning.
Personally it seems that bomb-building and other terrorist information is already fairly well available, as well as the US being awash with guns, and it's the ideological motivation that's the limiting factor for why we don't see much more terrorism.