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The dangers of open source AI... #ai #podcast #airegulation

Name: The dangers of open source AI... #ai #podcast #airegulation
Uploaded: 2024-05-23T19:50:36+00:00
Duration: 59 s
Channel: Richie Cotton
Description: In this monologue, the speaker warns that open‑source AI technologies will proliferate rapidly, becoming far more accessible than traditional weapons…

23 May 2024 · 1 min

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In this monologue, the speaker warns that open‑source AI technologies will proliferate rapidly, becoming far more accessible than traditional weapons like nuclear arms. The ease of publishing high‑tech AI tools means millions of actors—both benign and malicious—can modify them for nefarious purposes, including creating malware, new viruses, and autonomous weapons. Because of the sheer scale and diversity of potential threat actors, the speaker argues that coordinated global governance involving the United States, China, Europe, and other stakeholders is essential to prevent rogue elements from operating beyond legal reach and to safeguard global security.

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This technology is going to be massively proliferated in a short period of time. It's not like nuclear weapons where it's really expensive and really hard for any government actor to get a hold or handle on them. Never mind non government actors that have proven incapable so far. No, I mean this is first of all a lot of things are being published open source that are very high tech and you've got a lot of people that will use these technologies and tweak them in ways that are either tinkering or nefarious. And so when you have when there are literally millions of potential actors that are engaged in behaviors to support malware or develop new viruses or develop new weapons, I mean that of course requires global governance to respond to. Otherwise you'll have rogue elements outside the reach of the law that will be deeply problematic for everyone. And the Americans, the Chinese, the Europeans, everyone has an interest in ensuring there's governance for that thing.