Richard Socher argues AI self-improvement bans would require mass surveillance

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"I would argue and this is maybe a strong stance to really truly enforce no recursive self-improvement for instance you would need a totalitarian surveillance state the likes of which humanity has never seen because anyone can have a GPU on their little laptop and ask that AI to just like improve its harness."

Richard Socher argues that banning recursive self-improvement in AI would be impractical to enforce without pervasive monitoring of private use. He says people could run small self-improvement loops on local hardware, and that serious enforcement would resemble “thought police” oversight.