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How exactly do LLMs do that? If you've given an LLM's pseudorandom output control over your electrical grid, no regulation will mitigate your stupidity.
Could he understand the halting problem? I doubt he does, but the legislators evidently don't either
I think it's more about asking it the steps to create a bomb or how to disrupt the grid, for example, where to cut the major edges.
That sounds like a self-correcting issue right there
That, and the Internet has been teaching people how to create bombs since the dial-up days. I don't predict that LLM's will be either a benefit or a detriment to that particular strain of natural selection.
anyone remember the anarchist's cookbook?
Still a public safety issue.
Is it more of a public safety issue than if they actually build a working one from a legit bomb manual and deploy it?
No, but I think it could make the knowledge more easily available which increases the risk that it may happen.
I see you've never heard of the Anarchist's Cookbook
I think I heard about it before, but instead of having to remember that, I could just ask an uncensored LLM.
The actual point was, bomb making instructions have been floating around on search engine results since the days of dial up. That particular manuscript itself has existed since before the days of the Internet. There's nothing cgpt could give you that you couldn't have found by typing the same query into Google. Getting the instructions is literally the easiest, least effort, least risk part of building a bomb.
If you hook an LLM up as an interface replacement for a manual/analog Power Plant interface and start asking the translator to intuit decisions based on fuzzy inputs, you can create a cascade of errors that result in grid failure.
This rule would prevent a business or public regulator from doing such a thing without proving out safeguards.
And the governor vetoed it.