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Bernie Sanders tells OpenAI, Anthropic, and Meta to pause AI development or face Senate action (www.techspot.com)
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[โ€“] joe@lemmy.world 0 points 4 days ago (1 children)

The groups doing frontier research with the appropriate funding are few enough that a global pause would be possible, and useful.

I agree that a ban would be impossible, and counterproductive even if it were possible.

[โ€“] Jakeroxs@sh.itjust.works 0 points 4 days ago

Except when you think about if a ban were actually implemented it would absolutely be pro-entrenched companies like OpenAI and Anthropic and open weight models could be banned outright, I've already seen well-intentioned but misguided "experts" saying exactly that, BAN open weight models and pause further development, who would that benefit directly?