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Almost, but not quite. I'm quite sure the government itself will run IA without any compromise against whatever problems it thinks it has (either foreign or domestic). So this would regulate privately run AI but not government run black/undisclosed AI.

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You underestimate the degree to which the two are intermixed.

This would, for a completely random example, restrict what Palantir's AIs could do.

That would then effect results delivered to clients of Palantir, including other nationstates.

But that's not an issue, right? No government would ever contract out it's ultra-high end scale-of-observation intelligence tasks... Right?

In this scenario they would quite likely grant Palantir-GOV an exception to do whatever was necessary to give them a leg up no matter how indiscriminate or discriminating it were, but also stipulate that this is not to be shared with other nation states, except those the GOV okays.

Like when the GOV procures munitions it's not saying, "please be sure they don't kill the enemy's innocent livestock".

You are probably correct in that the government MUST recognize that non handicapped AI models are more useful, but to believe so requires looking past what the current representatives are actually saying and doing.

If a person repeatedly says they are going to close a door, walks over to the door, grabs the handle, and begins to pull it closed... Is it really outside the realm of possibility that they may, in fact, close the door?

Sure. But they’re showing you the front door being closed and aren’t letting you in that there is a back door they’re not telling you about which they intend to keep open. Politicians may shake ands and kiss babies, but they're total "killers" and not the nice people looking after you or their constituents as people think.

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