What the hell is artificial superintelligence?
Sounds sorta… silly, honestly. Yeah, we need a course correction on AI, or more, we need a significant course correction on big tech. But a city council ‘banning’ it, without understanding / clarity on what they’re banning, is nuts.
Like here they define a bit clearer what they’re banning –
ban autonomous systems that can modify their own core algorithms, run code outside their initial sandbox or perform complex tasks without continuous human oversight if those tasks could affect municipal networks, banking, financial markets or public safety.
Most enterprise firewalls would fall into this category, email filters too. Got an email system that automatically updates its algorithm to block malicious attackers? Banned. Even a simple script to help with sorting through financial data – like doing money-laundering/fraud checks overnight, with an outputed report in the morning for staff to investigate when they get in, would potentially fit the ban criteria.
Most 24/7 continuous monitoring systems that use algorithms to send alerts/notify humans would fall into this category – they’re specifically designed to watch for complex variable combinations, and then alert humans when potential issues shows up, so they’re explicitly designed not to be running “continuously under human oversight”.
“AI” is such a broad/undefined term, that blanket banning tends to also ban technology based on algorithms that’ve been around for multiple decades, without significant issues. Sorta like how the EU’s initial AI regulations had to make all these absurd carve outs for things like “Credit Scores”, because a credit score is technically an algorithm, and they were legislating algorithms.
The ban’s also nearly impossible to enforce, given its scope, and where “AI” has its hooks. Like if you ban AI, but all of Microsoft’s products have it entrenched at this point… while I don’t agree with it, I guarantee you the government / council would rather be in a state of non-compliance with their own law, rather than use Linux.
With Artificial Super Intelligence now banned, Sam Altman announced plans to direct more r&d resources towards Artificial General Intelligence instead.
People are talking about the ban itself but in what fucking world would a law only be repealed with consent of “95% of registered voters” LMAO
What does that mean?
What does this law actually ban? ChatGPT? I think the fuck not.
Does it ban something that doesn’t exist yet, but might exist someday? If so, what is it, other than a feel-good measure that does nothing?
Sounds like § 307 StGB
Is that the nuke one?
Edit: lokked it up, yes, it is.
Unwanted AI on your smartphone while driving through town? That’s a fine and a jail sentence. Genius.
Nice!
Banned it even before it was made.PLEASE YES
This might be a Trump trigger lol
Like when the writing subreddit banned AI, I am really skeptical of this.
Like how on earth do you enforce such a thing? I remember the mods of those subreddits said “we have tools to use that” but tools to detect AI are usually really bad.
I’m seriously willing to bet this isn’t going to be enforced in any meaningful way or potentially be abused wrongly. Having been to Indiana many times, it’s almost certainly gonna be the former.
Cool. Another insurmountable law that says what I can and cannot do with my own hardware and software in my own home.
Truly, this is freedom.
Certainly, this will protect the children.
It takes all of the momentum of AI-hate, and uses it to place draconian laws that completely missed the point.
The problems with AI are on several fronts, and this barely touches one of them…and not knowing much about Bloomfield IN, but it may just do nothing except shoot the town in the foot.
Do they have cheap electricity, large available lots, and significant water? Because on a municipal level, the only way a town should be getting involved in this battle is through shutting out the giant DCs that jack up the cost of electricity and sucking up all the water. That could (and should) be handled through existing zoning laws, amended as necessary.
But instead, we have people who have no comprehension of the reasons for AI-hate, just a bunch of shut-in politicians who hear “AI-BAD” getting chanted in the street, and know they have to react. They don’t know why it’s bad.
Hell even the people complaining don’t understand why it’s bad. They think every Google search summary kills 1000 baby seals or some shit, and aren’t even considering how much of their news feed is unedited unfiltered slop. They don’t know that their cool vibe-coded widget is sourced from code written by people who only wanted attribution and they won’t even get that.
They don’t recognize that the information they are getting fed to them is curated by billionaires through that AI machine.
And most importantly, they don’t realize that that includes the AI hate.
Wait, what?
You heard me. AI laws like this are fed from a pipeline of concerned and confused citizens, that starts from the billionaires that run the AI.
Why? Easy. Regulatory capture.
So yeah, no, please, no more like this. Because the last thing that the LLM industry needs is regulatory capture, controlled by this existing flock of billionaires.
It needs to be controlled, yeah, but not through knee-jerk reactionary self-inflected podiatric ballistic impact wounds.
Tl/Dr: ChatGPT is the new Philip Morris. Anthropic is Ma Bell, and SpaceX is DuPont Chemical.
How do you even enforce this? how can you ban something that doesn’t exists? you should make it illegal for extraterrestrials to walk outside past 9PM
Yall are fish for taking this bait lmao 🎣🎣
you don’t have to change the law if you change what words mean, and in this case, they did not ban llm’s. they banned a thing that does not exist
