Yet jump on any online forum and there's always this wishy-washy "oh lets see what happens!" mentality.
They aren't going to stop even if you pass laws to halt progress. The Pentagon is a direct customer of Nvidia, and they'll continue to develop cutting edge surveillance and war AI as they have for the last 30 years. It's facetious to imply that any type of LLM regulation would legitimately prevent AI (or even LLMs) from being used for any evil purpose.
> there's always this wishy-washy "oh lets see what happens!" mentality.
Why would the US halt commercial AI research if China could continue developing and exporting equivalent capabilities? They already can today. We already live in that "see what happens" world since unaligned finetunes of frontier models are freely available on HuggingFace. It feels like OpenAI and Anthropic only cry foul because neither of them can IPO in the current economic conditions.
What I'm saying is that the owners/ceos of the companies are saying they expect unrest/disruption/collapse from their technology (eg, Sam Altman saying exactly this), and yet the enthusiast base say this isn't the case. If I'm having a house built, and the architect says it will fall over, but other home owners say it won't, I feel I need to still trust what the architect is saying.