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So to protect yourself against bear attacks you suggest the bear shall voluntarily look himself in a cage?

AI is out there in the wild. It doesn't matter if OpenAI can get their stuff under control. There will be plenty others that don't. And there will be plenty of others that deliberately use their AIs for malicious purposes.

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If there is a bear out there repeatedly mauling hikers, we kill the bear.

This is a straightforward why not both situation. We both take steps to keep bears away from people and to mitigate harms when those steps fail.

Unless they are world wide rules people have to follow not sure how much it helps.

The bell for the new cold war has been rung, and the new weapons are digital.

I think this is hyperbolic. There are both social (legal, etc.) and technical avenues to defend against agents doing damaging things.

Right, that's why you never get hacked or get viruses on the internet, the law comes first.

It seems to me that your previous comment is (as I said) hyperbole, compared to "sometimes you get hacked or get viruses on the internet".

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