<story><title>Safe Superintelligence Inc.</title><url>https://ssi.inc</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>crowcroft</author><text>As others have pointed out, it&amp;#x27;s the business incentives that create unsafe AI, and this doesn&amp;#x27;t solve that. Social media recommendation algorithms are already incredibly unsafe for society and young people (girls in particular [1]).&lt;p&gt;When negative externalities exist, government should create regulation that appropriately accounts for that cost.&lt;p&gt;I understand there&amp;#x27;s a bit of a paradigm shift and new attack vectors with LLMs etc. but the premise is the same imo.&lt;p&gt;[1] &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;nypost.com&amp;#x2F;2024&amp;#x2F;06&amp;#x2F;16&amp;#x2F;us-news&amp;#x2F;preteen-instagram-influencers-followers-are-92-grown-men&amp;#x2F;&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;nypost.com&amp;#x2F;2024&amp;#x2F;06&amp;#x2F;16&amp;#x2F;us-news&amp;#x2F;preteen-instagram-infl...&lt;/a&gt;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>roywiggins</author><text>Even without business incentives, the military advantages of AI would inventivize governments to develop it anyway, like they did with nuclear weapons. Nuclear weapons are &lt;i&gt;inherently&lt;/i&gt; unsafe, there are some safeguards around them, but they are ultimately dangerous weapons.</text></comment>
<story><title>Safe Superintelligence Inc.</title><url>https://ssi.inc</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>crowcroft</author><text>As others have pointed out, it&amp;#x27;s the business incentives that create unsafe AI, and this doesn&amp;#x27;t solve that. Social media recommendation algorithms are already incredibly unsafe for society and young people (girls in particular [1]).&lt;p&gt;When negative externalities exist, government should create regulation that appropriately accounts for that cost.&lt;p&gt;I understand there&amp;#x27;s a bit of a paradigm shift and new attack vectors with LLMs etc. but the premise is the same imo.&lt;p&gt;[1] &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;nypost.com&amp;#x2F;2024&amp;#x2F;06&amp;#x2F;16&amp;#x2F;us-news&amp;#x2F;preteen-instagram-influencers-followers-are-92-grown-men&amp;#x2F;&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;nypost.com&amp;#x2F;2024&amp;#x2F;06&amp;#x2F;16&amp;#x2F;us-news&amp;#x2F;preteen-instagram-infl...&lt;/a&gt;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>akira2501</author><text>&amp;gt;  for society and young people (girls in particular [1]).&lt;p&gt;I don&amp;#x27;t think the article with a single focused example bears that out at all.&lt;p&gt;From the article:&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt; &amp;quot;Even more troubling are the men who signed up for paid subscriptions after the girl launched a program for super-fans receive special photos and other content.&amp;quot;&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt; &amp;quot;Her mom conceded that those followers are “probably the scariest ones of all.”&amp;quot;&lt;p&gt;I&amp;#x27;m sorry..  but what is your daughter selling,  exactly?  And why is social media responsible for this outcome?  And how is this &amp;quot;unsafe for society?&amp;quot;&lt;p&gt;This just sounds like horrific profit motivated parenting enabled by social media.</text></comment>