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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 (www.tomshardware.com)
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[–] isleepinahammock@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 13 hours ago

Completely off-topic comment. None of this matters to what we're talking about. Something doesn't have to be sentient, sapient, or intelligent in a human way to be capable of demonstrating unpredictable, novel, and incredibly powerful behaviors. A steam engine is non-sentient, but it vastly exceeds human capabilities in certain applications. It's no different for LLMs. You can stop talking about sentience. That's not what we're talking about here.

Discussions of consciousness are off topic in these conversations. We're discussing the threat posed by LLM-based systems, not whether they deserve rights.