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The limits of familiar analogies for AI

A user argues that AI is too many things at once for any single analogy to hold, predicting a need for new approaches to regulation, societal integration and international security.

Joshua AchiamJA
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Comparisons to ordinary technology, the industrial revolution, banking regulation, nuclear arms treaties, cybersecurity and alien species each explain some facet of AI but break down elsewhere, a user argues. They predict those limits will eventually force new ways of understanding AI, regulating it, integrating it into society and addressing international security.

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Joshua Achiam@jachiam0There will come a point where we're forced to recognize that none of the analogies for AI really hold and we have to embark on a very new kind of conceptual, regulatory, societal integration, and international security framework to deal with it. It's too many things at once for any one analogy to carry us very far productively. Each analogy (normal technology, industrial revolution, banking/financial regulation, nuclear arms treaties, cybersecurity, alien species, etc) while seductively explanatory for some facet of AI development or impacts will break down in one important regime or another and we'll be forced to do something new.20d
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    Joshua Achiam@jachiam0There will come a point where we're forced to recognize that none of the analogies for AI really hold and we have to embark on a very new kind of conceptual, regulatory, societal integration, and international security framework to deal with it. It's too many things at once for any one analogy to carry us very far productively. Each analogy (normal technology, industrial revolution, banking/financial regulation, nuclear arms treaties, cybersecurity, alien species, etc) while seductively explanatory for some facet of AI development or impacts will break down in one important regime or another and we'll be forced to do something new.20d
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