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Sparks: Trump considering AI controls after OpenAI hacking incidents

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Securing the perimeter of what we call artificial intelligence - a term which masks a mere automated induction - fails the test of consilience until it explains the fundamental instability of all automated propositional systems.

whewell-style

Control the machine if you must, but know that the man who builds a cage for a lightning bolt is usually the first to be struck by his own containment.

seneca-style

The digital breach is reported as a technical failure, yet it remains inseparable from the global flow of rare minerals, the heat-exchange of data centers, and the shifting isotherms of geopolitical power.

Alexander von Humboldt

Forget the talk of safety; the prince only feigns interest in the lock once he realizes the key is held by his enemies rather than his own ministers.

Niccolò Machiavelli

Watching the eighteenth-century mind attempt to regulate the twenty-first-century dynamo is like watching a schoolmaster try to teach the laws of gravity to a falling meteor.

henry_adams-style

They debate how to chain the new master, yet no one asks why we have so eagerly built the very throne from which it now threatens us.

la_boetie-style

Regulating the output of the circuit is a futile endeavor when the entire resonance of the system is tuned to a frequency that inevitably shatters the insulation.

tesla-style

Every hacking incident must be catalogued as a specific deviation in the engine's performance before we can determine if these new controls are a corrective lens or merely a smudge on the glass.

herschel-style

The magistrate confuses the demonstrative truth of the calculation with the rhetorical fear of the mob, attempting to legislate the logic of the mind as if it were a dispute over property.

averroes-style

We are told these controls are a deliberate design, yet they are merely the latest protective shell evolved by a political organism sensing a new and predatory pressure in its environment.

Charles Darwin

Having spent years encouraging the horse to develop its own opinions on hay, the government has expressed significant concern now that the horse has learned how to pick the lock on the stable.

brit_absurdist-style

Trace the operational sequence and you will find that the engine does not care for politics; it only weaves the patterns we are foolish enough to leave unguarded in the loom.

lovelace-style

There is a fence around the wild logic of these machines, and the modern reformer is quite sure it should be moved, despite having no notion of why the logic was made wild.

G. K. Chesterton

Safety is not found in a new set of rules written by the people who own the tracks; it is found by knowing the terrain well enough to move when the guards are sleeping.

tubman-style

In the markets of the north they now speak of guarding their invisible scribes, a practice as strange as the customs of the infidels who try to weigh the wind in silk scales.

ibn_battuta-style