Does Congress Want To Stop AI ???

Republicans and Democrats in Congress woke up the other day to do this:

In the name of "protecting future generations from potentially devastating consequences," a bipartisan group of U.S. lawmakers on Wednesday introduced legislation meant to prevent artificial intelligence from launching nuclear weapons without meaningful human control.

Source - https://www.antiwar.com/blog/2023/04/27/bipartisan-us-bill-aims-to-prevent-ai-from-launching-nuclear-weapons/

I really like the "without meaningful human control" part, as if such control would make the decision more palatable.

Somebody must have been watching the Terminator movies, or perhaps that perennial favorite War Games. Or maybe even Colossus: The Forbin Project. (Where can I find a copy of that one?)

Any alleged "thinking" which led to this proposed legislation is fundamentally flawed.

There are (at least) two things humanity should NEVER have done - create nuclear weapons and create AI. And YES, AI already exists and is rapidly being perfected and expanded.

Some of the smartest people in the room realized at the beginning that BOTH of these development efforts would create monsters ... uncontrollable monsters which they NEVER should have unleashed.

But they did it anyway.

AI, especially artificial superintelligence (ASI) which can write its own code and which has direct access to the Internet, CANNOT be controlled. We can kid ourselves like we did with atomic weapons, but the reality is that once such creations are unleashed they will lead to catastrophe.

And we are in the process of unleashing ASI.

If this proposed legislation is all Congress is going to do, we might as well just bend over now and kiss our asses goodbye.