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0 pointskypro2y ago0 comments

This isn't a trick question, genuinely curious – do you agree that guns are not the problem and should not be regulated – yes, while they can be used for harm, the right approach to gun violence is to police the crime.

I think the objection to this would be that currently not everyone in the world an expert in biochemistry or at hacking into computer systems. Even if you're correct in principal, perhaps the risks of the technology we're developing here is too high? We typically regulate technologies which can easily be used to cause harm.

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supriyo-biswas2y ago

AI systems provide many benefits to society, such as image recognition, anomaly detection, educational and programming used of LLMs, to name a few.

Guns only have a primarily harmful use which is to kill or injure someone. While that act of killing may be justified when the person violates societal values in some way, making regular citizens the decision makers in whether a certain behavior is allowed or disallowed and being able to immediately make a judgment and execute upon it leads to a sort of low-trust, vigilante environment; which is why the same argument I made above doesn’t apply for guns.

mensetmanusman2y ago

I think game theory around mutually assured destruction has convinced me that the world is a safer place when a number of countries have nuclear weapons.

The same thing might also be true in relation to guns and the government's monopoly on violence.

Extending that to AI, the world will probably be a safer place if there are far more AI systems competing with each other and in the hands of citizens.

logicchains2y ago

>whether a certain behavior is allowed or disallowed and being able to immediately make a judgment and execute upon it leads to a sort of low-trust, vigilante environment

Have you any empirical evidence at all on this? From what I've seen the open carry states in the US are generally higher trust environments (as was the US in past when more people carried). People feel safer when they know somebody can't just assault, rob or rape them without them being able to do anything to defend themselves. Is the Tenderloin a high trust environment?

tome2y ago

> do you agree that guns are not the problem and should not be regulated

But AI is not like guns in this analogy. AI is closer to machine tools.

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