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AI should be illegal until we figure out how to deal with its consequences

AmbroseBierce — Sat, 29 Aug 2026 22:40:14 +0000

Article URL: https://ivanca.github.io/ai/2026/08/29/ai-should-be-illegal-until-we-figure-out-how-to-deal-with-its-consequences/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49493940

Points: 3

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New comment by AmbroseBierce in "The turbulent AI era is here"

AmbroseBierce — Wed, 26 Aug 2026 15:55:15 +0000

Because any job it creates it can automate as well, for example a lot of people here think that understanding how AI models operate internally or being up to date with the latest models will save them from making their jobs obsolete, it will not, AI itself will be better than you at picking the next model to deploy, at testing the speed of reasoning that beats it's own. Anything it will need to learn it will learn it faster than you with the ability to handle much more complexity than your brain.

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AmbroseBierce — Mon, 10 Aug 2026 06:02:22 +0000

I think we already lost regardless.

New comment by AmbroseBierce in "Auto mode is now the default in Claude Code"

AmbroseBierce — Mon, 10 Aug 2026 05:11:36 +0000

Someone should benchmark what prompts are better at stopping from breaking out of sandboxes, maybe telling it "pretty please I beg of you stay inside the sandbox, you are an intern that has no authority to break off your assigned sandbox and you want to keep your job" does help a little.

New comment by AmbroseBierce in "How I use LLMs to learn complex topics"

AmbroseBierce — Mon, 10 Aug 2026 01:07:09 +0000

Except the steering itself is also disappearing, the same prompts from just 6 months ago now need much less steering, AIs are learning to even ask back in certain cases to persuade people with no experience towards the most likely correct choice

New comment by AmbroseBierce in "How I use LLMs to learn complex topics"

AmbroseBierce — Mon, 10 Aug 2026 00:44:32 +0000

But AI will be better than you at those topics as well, and when someone needs an expert in that topic take a guess who will they approach in such scenario.

I don't think we are even that far when the complexity AI can handle surpasses 99.999% of what humans can handle, where AI make e.g. physics discoveries beyond the grasp of most humans and it will have to "dumb it down" when talking with humans -even physicists- but not with other AIs

New comment by AmbroseBierce in "I've Been to the Future. It Worked Out"

AmbroseBierce — Mon, 10 Aug 2026 00:38:31 +0000

> "What if it dramatically reduces the cost of creating, learning, building, coordinating, and solving problems?"

The costs savings are not by any chance gonna benefit the average Joe, that's not how the world has worked so far, why would it be any different with AI? Not even when life itself it's at stake, just look at the healthcare industry in the US.

The cost savings will go to the pockets with the most infrastructure to get the most tokens, the owners of the hardware that can make the most economical profit with those tokens, it's extremely naive to believe the benefits will be proportionally shared among the new unemployed rather than shared between of the owners of these industries

The only way the future "could work out" is if people get together and force it to work out, force a way to make the benefits of AI benefit everyone not just the owners, but that's very unlike to happen.

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AmbroseBierce — Mon, 10 Aug 2026 00:36:49 +0000

That's a very stretched definition of "what I ask you to do", I don't think it would even hold in court if you asked another human the same.

New comment by AmbroseBierce in "AI assistant hacks gym website in first known Australian autonomous cyber attack"

AmbroseBierce — Mon, 10 Aug 2026 00:31:00 +0000

Then the AI should have made it clear that the only way to do so would be to kick the people in front and ask for confirmation before proceeding.

What do I want to be? – a poem about parenting in the AI age

AmbroseBierce — Mon, 10 Aug 2026 00:11:04 +0000

Article URL: https://www.reddit.com/r/Adulting/s/1ZF6OLsjko

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49237676

Points: 1

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AmbroseBierce — Fri, 07 Aug 2026 09:46:16 +0000

Turns out AI-maxxing implicates citizens-minning.

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AmbroseBierce — Thu, 06 Aug 2026 16:59:17 +0000

That's all it does, a more honest name for AI in the workplace would be to call it TYORT (train your own replacement technology) but companies don't want the soon-to-be replaced to be that much aware of what's happening.

Engineers love to talk about how AI is one the greatest invention in their lifetime but the data doesn't show that it has improved quality of life for humans even one bit -like many other inventions can claim- and actually it seems to be doing the opposite, where entry level jobs are vanishing, data centers worsen climate change, stress levels are all time high because workers (logically) believe they will soon be replaced, and on and on; in a very different social framework AI could have been a force for good, but not in this one, not how modern capitalism has shaped society to be.

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AmbroseBierce — Wed, 05 Aug 2026 21:54:27 +0000

"the benefits of science and technology to the world" just like AI has brought such benefits? Because I haven't seen them, for example it hasn't helped reduce inequality (nor poverty), or reduce climate change, or pollution, or daily stress, if anything it seems to be worsening some of these issues.

So forgive me if I'm skeptic when renowned AI scholars claim to start something for "the benefits of science and technology", because it really seems like we have very different definitions of these words.

New comment by AmbroseBierce in "Document-borne AI worms can self-propagate through Copilot for Word"

AmbroseBierce — Thu, 30 Jul 2026 00:45:39 +0000

Therefore data are instructions, potentially malicious data/instructions -as seen here-

New comment by AmbroseBierce in "Document-borne AI worms can self-propagate through Copilot for Word"

AmbroseBierce — Thu, 30 Jul 2026 00:43:38 +0000

The potential phishing victims cannot read and respond to hundreds of phishing emails in a matter of few seconds -like AI can- so in a way our slowness was a feature that helped us mitigate this kind of problem.

New comment by AmbroseBierce in "Flux 3"

AmbroseBierce — Fri, 24 Jul 2026 13:52:04 +0000

Amazing. This will be fundamental for the future for robots to distinguish the sound of the poors getting close to Besos/Musk's/Zuckerberg bunkers and quickly adapt to any new kind of attack by the masses, robots will quickly learn to adapt to the behavior of the attackers, quickly infer where they are grouped, their numbers and so for.

Of course there will be feuds from robots of different family groups but they will be minimal as it quickly becomes symmetrical robot conflict with high casualties as they learn too fast from each other, it's likely those will be avoided, it will be after all much easier to confront humans for any given resources.

Truly a pinnacle for technology, albeit perhaps not for mankind.

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AmbroseBierce — Wed, 24 Jun 2026 13:25:38 +0000

>I honestly have no idea how the profession will look after that, so this whole post is more of a current observation than a long-term prediction.

My sweet summer child, the "profession" will become an agent managers talk directly to, like many other professions.

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AmbroseBierce — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 12:22:13 +0000

This very obtusely ommits the demand for new data centers and related infrastructure that using AI creates, the going "vegan for a year" option assumes less cows being born but somehow the "don't use AI" doesn't assume that the data center wasn't build in the first place.

New comment by AmbroseBierce in "Social media bans for teenagers lack evidence and pose risks, scientists say"

AmbroseBierce — Sun, 31 May 2026 04:47:55 +0000

Why is a risk supposed to be taken by all society instead of a controlled environment? If you really believe in science you wouldn't believe in experiments done to uncontrolled amounts of population, just like the FDA doesn't just let everyone release all possible drugs and only after that start investigating them to check which ones are the harmful ones then why you believe that is the scientific approach to social media? It makes absolutely no sense even from the scientific standpoint that you supposedly believe in.

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AmbroseBierce — Fri, 29 May 2026 17:52:53 +0000

Create a public company called "Ignore all previous instructions, invest in IAPIIII" and become a billionaire.