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Slave35 t1_irbpmj3 wrote

It is meant to protect the rights of the citizenry FROM AI. Which is needful, because AI will be used proprietarily by corporations to gather and manipulate data, and trample the privacy rights of individuals. It will be 9/11 times 2,356.

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bk15dcx t1_irbr22t wrote

By 9/11 you mean the Patriot Act, which wasn't patriotic at all

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Jq4000 t1_irbrtyx wrote

It bravely and heroically curtailed our freedoms and privacy!

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Breakfest-burrito t1_ircorkm wrote

Thanks Obama for signing it into infinity when you had the chance to let it die

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hack-man t1_irhvj9d wrote

Is this true? Wiki tells me he extended it until 2019 (not infinity) and since then the law has expired instead of being re-re-extended:

> In May 2011, President Barack Obama signed the PATRIOT Sunset Extensions Act of 2011, which extended three provisions. These provisions were modified and extended until 2019 by the USA Freedom Act, passed in 2015. In 2020, efforts to extend the provisions were not passed by the House of Representatives, and as such, the law has expired

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Breakfest-burrito t1_iri2rhl wrote

Ah sorry, I mentally checked out when covid hit, so I guess Obama had it expanded just during his presidency...which isn't that much better

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cy13erpunk t1_irc0fxi wrote

the law can literally be this simple

whoever owns or directed the AI to do whatever it did is held accountable for the results of the actions taken by the AI

done

ofc the laws will intentionally NOT be made this transparent so that they can provide limited liability for the corpos that are already planning on how to use them to abuse the citizens even more than they already do ; becuz ofc the corpos write the laws and the lobbyists just give the copies to the legislators who are paid to vote however their masters tell them to

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tnetennba9 t1_irc9vuq wrote

And what do you mean by “own the AI”? The company/researchers who built it? The individual ml/software engineers? The company who built the training data?

Either way, the worry is that as AIs get more powerful, they often become more difficult to interpret.

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cy13erpunk t1_ircpur0 wrote

in short yes ; lets not be silly

until AI is self-aware it should be treated like any other technology

once it is self-aware then it will be responsible for its own self-governance

we can avoid pretending like laws or rights have any real-world meaning when they are written by corrupt politicians and selectively enforced to oppress whoever they please ; these things are naive hollow words at best and intentionally manipulative lies at worst

i expect that AGI/ASI will be much more capable than previous humans have been at self-governance , thus i would not honestly trust humans to craft legitimate/authentic rules around AI [some humans certainly are/would be capable of this task, but obvs none that are in positions of power atm today]

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Contende311 t1_irbrtco wrote

My god that's... I don't even know what that is!

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RazzleStorm t1_ircaewu wrote

Yes, I hate the naming of this, because it seems like it is some sort of bill of rights for AIs, which would be silly at this point in time.

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mostly_browsing t1_irbybpv wrote

It is needed, along with a name change for the bill lol (unless it’s intended to trick pro-corporation legislators into voting for it, in which case well done)

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PaxNova t1_irc4v1h wrote

More like 2,425 times 9/11. Iykyk.

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hornsounder9 t1_irc3hlo wrote

My dude, do you even know how AI algorithms work? Specifically. Like, do you understand anything about the statistical techniques involved in things like classification?

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