r/technology • u/ArgentineBeauty • 21d ago

Artificial Intelligence Bernie Sanders proposes 20 year prison sentence for AI devs who plow ahead with Artificial Superintelligence plans - penalty on par with illegally developing rogue nuclear weapons

https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/artificial-intelligence/sanders-proposes-20-year-prison-sentence-for-ai-devs-who-plow-ahead-with-artificial-superintelligence-plans-penalty-on-par-with-illegally-developing-rogue-nuclear-weapons
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u/Tupcek 21d ago

tell that on any other discussion of Bernie’s proposals and you’ll get downvoted to hell. This one just doesn’t pass here because there are a lot of devs in here

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u/ghoonrhed 21d ago

Not many of Bernie's other proposals involve throwing people in jail for 20 years for an arbitary definition of "intelligence".

Does giving the current Trump admin MORE power to throw people in jail for any reason a good thing?

You know for a fact if this passes they won't be throwing CEOs in jail it'll some random guy for potentially manipulating an open source model to assist with abortion or trans or whatever they hate on on that day.

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u/Tupcek 21d ago

I agree, I am just saying all of Bernie’s proposals have zero chance of passing, exactly because of that - sounds good if you don’t think about it for more than two seconds. In practice, it absolutely wouldn’t work and that’s why they have zero chance of passing

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u/Working-Permission84 21d ago

The reason Bernie's proposals have zero chance of passing is because they have very nearly zero support in Congress (0 R), not because they wouldn't work. When was the last time congress did something to help Americans?

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u/Tupcek 21d ago

both can be true. They wouldn’t work. See this thread for example, but same applies to all of his other proposals. They only sound good if you don’t think about them too much

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u/BenevolentCheese 21d ago

there are a lot of devs in here

Lol in /r/technology? This place is only luddites.

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u/McFragatron 21d ago

Some of the best devs I've known are basically luddites lmao.

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u/CucharitaDePalo 21d ago

that literally goes against being a good dev.

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u/BenevolentCheese 21d ago

Back in 2005 my computer science professors had no idea how to actually use modern computers.

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u/McFragatron 21d ago

One thing I learned too late is that CS professors are academics, NOT software engineers (most professors IME had zero professional experience and had spent their entire lives in academia)

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u/Tymareta 21d ago

luddites

Folks who were totally ok with new technologies but wanted stronger protections for the livelihood of workers, that's who you're trying to demean?

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u/miamorri 19d ago

Don't know why you're getting downvoted, it's objectively and historically correct.

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u/Tymareta 19d ago

As this thread was astro turfed to hell and back.

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u/TeslasAndComicbooks 20d ago

More so because it’s a dumb proposal. Asking for 20 years of jail time for breaking what law exactly? People get out of jail earlier for manslaughter.