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Why does everybody come up with the 'nuclear weapons' comparison, when there is a much more appropriate one - encryption, specifically public key cryptography? Way back in the 90s, when Phil Zimmerman released PGP, the US government raised hell to keep it from proliferating. Would you rather live in a world where strong encryption for ordinary citizens was illegal?

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Because encryption is not an inherently dangerous thing. A superintelligent AI is.

It’s no different than inviting an advanced alien species to visit. Will it go well? Sure hope so, because if they don’t want it to go well it won’t be our planet any more

Current AI (the one that's getting regulated, e.g. LLMs and diffusion models) lacks any sort of individual drive or initiative, so all the danger it represents is that of a powerful tool wielded by someone.

People who are saying AI is dangerous are saying people are dangerous when empowered with AI, and that's why only the right people should have access to it (who presumably are the ones lobbying for legislation right now).

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