On: Sam Altman goes before US Congress to propose licenses for building AI

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"he's just doing this to hinder competition"

It's true that AI regulation would, in fact, hinder OpenAI's competition.

But... isn't lobbying for regulation also what Sam would do if he genuinely thought that LLMs were powerful, dangerous technology that should be regulated?

If you don't think LLMs/AI research should be regulated, just say that. I don't see how Sam's motives are relevant to that question.

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The proper way to regulate is to disallow certain functions in an AI. Doing it that way wouldn't kneecap the competition to OpenAI, though, where requiring a license does.