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I'm no expert either, but from living through the painful days of ITAR and encryption, it only matters that some technology/information can be used for military
by freedomben 3y ago
I'm no expert either, but from living through the painful days of ITAR and encryption, it only matters that some technology/information can be used for military purpose for it to be restricted. For years we couldn't distribute the code for AES above 128 due to ITAR, even though it was widely and easily available all over the internet.
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- neom 3y agoIf you'd care to opine, would you then there agree with delfinom that ITAR in AI could be a solution to this? From what you just described, it made me wonder if it would impose undo burden on, and so hamper, the emergence of the next generation of NN/ML tools ("AI").
- freedomben 3y agoThere's considerable nuance involved in the question, which I haven't done due diligence on, but with that as a disclaimer... Thinking out loud, it does seem like it could help, although it does place a significant (at times) burden on people affected, and in the case that I worked with it made no practical difference whatsoever at preventing the use of the technology by US adversaries. So yes I think it might could help, but my inclination is away from it as I think it would ultimately be ineffective yet quite burdensome on US companies. Possibly to the point of backfiring, leading to a country like China that is (so far at least) much more "open" in regards to AI/ML. Do you have any thoughts?
- neom 3y agoI have such limited knowledge of this stuff it's all just gut, but I'd be aligned with you when pushed to comment. The best solution is probably no solution, it's going to happen and that's that.