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Why would it be easy to stop at that point? The believable value prop will increase in lockstep with the believable scare factor, not to mention the (already significant) proliferation out of ultra expensive research orgs into open source repos.

Nuclear weapons proliferated explicitly because they proved their scariness.

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If AI can exist humans have to figure it out. It’s what we do. Really shockingly delusional to think people are gonna use chatgpt for a few min get bored and then ban it like it’s a nuke. I’d rather the USA get it first anyways.

Where did I say we could or should ban it like a nuke?

Anyway this is a good example of the completely blind-faith reasoning that backs AI optimism: we’ll figure it out “because it’s what we do.”

FWIW we have still not figured out how to dramatically reduce nuclear risk. We’re here just living with it every single day still, and with AI we’re likely stepping onto another tightrope that we and all future generations have to walk flawlessly.

>If AI can exist humans have to figure it out. It’s what we do.

We have figured out stuff in the past, but we also came shockingly close to nuclear armageddon more than once.

I'm not sure I want to roll the dice again.

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