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Ask HN: Is the only way to regulate AI through chip fabs?

3 pointsby jlei523about 2 years ago
This means regulating the most advanced chip fabs, TSMC, Samsung, and Intel on manufacturing ever more powerful AI training chips.<p>I can&#x27;t think of another way to prevent a rogue lab from training ever more powerful AI.<p>Only AI labs that pass stringent audits and regulations can be allowed to buy more powerful AI chips.<p>If we determine that AI is an existential threat to humanity, like nuclear weapons are, shouldn&#x27;t we regulate AI training chips like we regulate nuclear weapon making material?<p>Countries have treaties signed on nuclear weapons. Why not sign treaties on AI chip making&#x2F;buying?

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behnamohabout 2 years ago
How do we make sure no country builds underground chip facilities just for training AGI models? tbh, the genie is out of the bottle. I never thought the path to AGI would be so &quot;simple&quot;: basically you take a 2017 paper and give it tons of data and see AGI emerge. It&#x27;s fascinating.
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lisasaysabout 2 years ago
Not just chip fabs; also data centers. According to Eliezer S. Yudkowsky, if push comes to shove, we can also order airstrikes against the latter:<p><i>If intelligence says that a country outside the agreement is building a GPU cluster, be less scared of a shooting conflict between nations than of the moratorium being violated; be willing to destroy a rogue datacenter by airstrike.</i><p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;time.com&#x2F;6266923&#x2F;ai-eliezer-yudkowsky-open-letter-not-enough&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;time.com&#x2F;6266923&#x2F;ai-eliezer-yudkowsky-open-letter-no...</a>
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verdvermabout 2 years ago
&gt; Countries have treaties signed on nuclear weapons.<p>Yet we also have nuclear technology for energy, medicine, and more. It&#x27;s a big jump from weapons to a foundation technology.<p>How do you predetermine if a multi-use chip is going to be used for AI or something else? These GPU like chips have multiple purposes