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That seems sensible.
Even a hypothetically true artificial general intelligence would still not be a moral agent, thus it cannot be held responsible for its actions; as such, whoever deploys and maintains it should be held responsible. That's doubly true with LLMs as they aren't even intelligent to begin with.
Even a hypothetically true artificial general intelligence would still not be a moral agent
That's a deep rabbit hole that can't be stated as a known fact. It's absolutely true right now with LLMs, but at some point the line could be crossed. If and when, how, and by what definition has been a long debate nowhere near resolved.
It's highly possible that AGI/ASI could come about and be both super intelligent and self conscious and still have no sense of morality. But how can we at human levels even comprehend what's possible? There's the real danger, we have no idea what we could be heading towards.
To be a moral agent, your actions towards others need to have consequences for yourself - be those consequences direct, social, emotional, or something else. And intelligence on itself doesn't provide those consequences.
The nearest that you could do, with AGI alone, would be to hardcode it with ethical principles, but that's another matter. (I'm saying this because people often conflate ethics and morality, even if they're two different cans of worms.)
Surprisingly fast for a government organization to react to something new.
Lina Khan is awesome
Amazing what happens with adequate funding. How long until Republicans open some sort of bullshit Congressional investigation that won't find anything but waste time and money, and as usual try to reduce funding by obviously punitive levels?
Adequate funding and having a chair that isn't in the back pocket of industry.
Her enforcement is getting a fair bit of push back from the courts though, unsurprisingly mostly Republican appointees.
Harris megadonors are trying to buy favor in order to get Khan removed from the FTC position. I'm kinda worried that it will work.
Given that SCOTUS is focused on destroying the government one agency at a time, you're likely to see them rule that the FTC is unconstitutional because it didn't exist in the 1600s or some other equally-bullshit excuse.
I am attracted to her because of her sheer awesomeness. There I said it.
FTC is making some awesome moves while it can
Fake lawyers, fake reviews, and several pyramid schemes. Solid takedowns, FTC!
Oh, good, this needed to happen. People making grandiose claims about AI's capabilities that it's nowhere near ready for needed to be shot down.
