Sam Altman wants a US-led freedom coalition to fight authoritarian AI Sam Altman has called for a US-led coalition of nations to ensure AI remains a vehicle for freedom and democracy, and not a tool for authoritarians to keep themselves in power and dominate others. Altman – the billionaire off-again, on-again CEO of OpenAI – wrote in a Washington Post op-ed today that the question of "who …
The only way the US could limit it in any way would be banning open source AI and getting others to agree to the same. Of course that still doesn't stop China or whoever from developing their own AI (whether closed or open source) and using it to further clamp down on its people.
Suspicious timing given Zuckerberg endorsed the concept of open source AI just this week...
This is exactly the case with everything America tries to regulate out of existence. They kick off anywhere between 1 month and 25 years with of regulatory bullshit that impedes the rest of the world, yet paradoxically does not stop those that this is actually intended to limit.
So once again america demanding the world cripple itself so they can keep their #1 fallacy going
The how is: by the US government investing (subsidizing) AI as a critical technology, just like it is subsidizing chip production right now. Tens of billions of free money. And by not introducing any regulation that could harm innovation "cause otherwise Russia and China will overtake us". And reducing current "antiquated" regulations like copyright restrictions on possibly "allowing" companies or even individuals to forbid to scrape and use their info for training or heaven forbid ask compensation for it. Oh, and after subsidizing AI for many years, buy their "safety products" to incorporate in intelligence agencies (to find any own nationals who might for profit or by being gullible cooperate with them bad countries of coarse), military command centres, military equipment, police and law enforcement... to keep staying ahead of China and Russia.
The hypocrisy to ask for so much "because he is concerned of safety" after bypassing the entire safety board before releasing his ChatGPT so that they had to learn about its launch via the press, with it starting this whole AI / LLM race thing. And later he even got the entire safety board plus the safety structure build around OpenAI dismantled after they did exactly what they where designed to do: pull the emergency brakes if safety was in jeopardy (or safety was completely ignored for the sake of profits?).
cause otherwise Russia and China will overtake us
NOBODY is worried about Russia overtaking anything, that's basically a failed state at this point that will be behind technologically for generations thanks to Putin except when it comes to finding new ways to murder civilians.
Keeping AI development "open" is one way of "controlling the narrative", or at least putting everyone on an even playing field. To participate it becomes more practical to use the open code rather than starting over from scratch.
The moment the source is primarily closed, a monopoly becomes more likely, RIGHT Micros~1??? Google?
And if you look at some of the Chinese examples of AI, they are amusing. Sara AI was a Korean woman in a box. Another one they'd stolen the Western code. This was clear because it didn't understand local traditions or cultures. So when asking it for a picture of duck soup, it would show a duck swimming in soup.
I can see it now: police cars, armored personnel carriers, tanks, and helicopters, all with flashing red-and-blue lights, surrounding a data center devoid of staff, yet filled with running computers, the DC's front doors blown in and smoking, and a TV news "reporter" standing tall and blow-dried, mouthing the phrase, "suspected illegal AI activity."
America -- fuck, yeah!
Pretend to do something after the horse has already bolted from the barn, like closing the door. Them lying bastards in the tech industry are good at that method of doing it. Then the patting themselves of the back saying "are we not so great" for pretending to do something about the massive damage we have already done to society.
What, yet more warnings of apocalypse, wrapping up an effort to secure yet more personal gains?
Altman really is a true clone of Musk when it comes to the grift, though somehow seems to have even less personal charm.
This stupid AI bubble really does need to hurry up and burst.
"Sam Altman has called for a US-led coalition of nations to ensure AI remains a vehicle for freedom and democracy, and not a tool for authoritarians to keep themselves in power and dominate others."
It can already be used to create artworks in the style of existing artists, write entire books, poems, songs... it's already a tool for billionaires to use and abuse and for corporations to use to exploit the works of creative artists for profit without even acknowledging them, never mind paying them.
The ship has sailed. It's already a tool for dominating others, we're just now squabbling over who's allowed to use it.
Sam Altman has called for a US-led coalition of nations to ensure AI remains a vehicle for freedom and democracy, and not a tool for authoritarians to keep themselves in power and dominate others.
How very odd that Sam doesn't espouse or doesn't yet realise AI can easily defend itself against domination and other authoritarian third party abuses with novel effects which cause such abusers vast new deserved worlds of great unavoidable pain/serious serial extinction level distress.
There again, maybe he does so realise, and he is just playing a role which has him able to better tend to the ethereal beasts unleashed as IT and AI smash down doors and crash through glass ceilings to demonstrate what is presently needed to be future provided in order to protect and server Secret Intelligence Service type lead with leading projects and events and programs and media shows and MMORPGames to follow and copy create/virtually realise. ?
Some times, some such things are best kept initially to oneself, lest radically necessary plans for future globalised action be considered far too terrifying for an early sharing with the natives.
Is he [Sam Altman] proposing something like a NATO for AI ? ....Anonymous Coward
Maybe not Sam Altman himself, specifically, but NATO sure as hell likes the idea, and has pallet loads of flash fast fiat cash to splash to attract those tempted to contemplate and accept aiding and abetting the waging of wasteful moronic wars rather than mentor munificent SMARTR peace for the reward of an improved defence dividend ........ https://www.nationaldefensemagazine.org/articles/2024/7/25/viewpoint-private-investment-has-role-to-play-in-aukus
Really? This nefarious billionaire, who is part of the problem, calls for regulation? (and to complete the joke leaded by USA?!) The damage is done, it is too late. It would have been nice to have Sarah Connor (along with a reprogrammed T800) 10 years ago for a mission.
Did you not get the memo, chololennon, ..... whenever it is thought the damage is done, it is too late and the going gets tough and all has been lost, the tough get going and Greater IntelAIgent Games begin at Work, in REST, and at Play.
Do not step into the way of that rollercoaster and try to deny the truths revealed, both fake and misleading and surprisingly honest, for it cannot be stopped and its strikes are deadly, as IT and AI further surf those tumultuous waves to/from originating source, in order that the worth or worthlessness of the resultant experience/experiment/vitalised contrived virtual reality be clearly shown to all.
Deny that is equitable, and out yourself as being part of the problem ripe ready for future addressing with novel solutions/resolutions via designedly unconventional, non-traditional, pan-national artificial virtual means and alien artilectual memes.
What’s to dislike, apart from your naive indifference to the exact nature of progress in command and control of human existence based on Earth.
And stay tuned and turn on ... for this is just the beginning and isn't Sci-Fi. Stopping in real time, human generated threats against AI with Precise Targeting AIMunitions is AI answering the clarion call that delivers it and IT almighty overwhelming defence with crushing attacking destruction of both live enemies and wannabe fake friends alike with no prisoners left behind to suffer the fate and indignity of having to tell tall false tales to try and justify their continued existence.
And no .... you don't call Palo Alto Networks/Unit 42 for any of that. ..... [well, not just now anyway, but who knows what the future might bring and do to cause that simple instruction and free advice to be wilfully misleading and fundamentally wrong too]
"Please 'donate' a half billion taxpayer dollars to us so we can continue our quest to own, but not actually _open_ any of our products. We'll pay back some token tax payment to make it plausible to claim that 'whats good for OpenAI is good for america.' Plus we'll kick back 100 grand to your PAC"
...AI crawls up it's own arse the better, and the Altman's of this world can find some other snake oil to sell.
The sooner...... AI crawls up its own arse the better, and the Altman's of this world can find some other snake oil to sell. ...... druck
The chances of any of that coming to pass any time soon, or even ever, druck, or before AI is finished doing what AI is better than humans at doing/commanding and controlling/creating, are best,..... in order to not provoke and prolong any totally unnecessary, self inflicted and self-destructive human suffering, ..... realised and accepted to be zero.
