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That car analogy doesn't work because Mercedes Benz didn't actively work against other cars from existing. https://www.vice.com/en/article/dy7nby/researchers-t

• ben_w 4y ago
  First: Crumple zones have since become mandatory, which pattern matches what would happen if OpenAI gets what they ask for in that link. Second: I'm just as concerned about automated generation of propaganda as they seem to be. Given what LLMs are currently capable of doing, a free cyber-Goebbels for every hate group is the default: the AI itself only cares about predicting the next token, not the impact of having done so. Edit: Also, the headline of the Vice story you linked to is misleading given the source document that the body linked to. 1. Of the 6 researchers listed as authors of that report, only 2 are from OpenAI 2. Reduced exports of chips from the USA are discussed only briefly within that report, as part of a broader comparison with all the other possible ways to mitigate the various risks 3. Limited chip exports does nothing to prevent domestic propaganda and research https://cdn.openai.com/papers/forecasting-misuse.pdf https://cdn.openai.com/papers/forecasting-misuse.pdf