Bernie Sanders proposes 20 year prison sentence for AI devs who plow ahead with Artificial Superintelligence plans - penalty on par with illegally developing rogue nuclear weapons

The problem with this is that Chinese companies are only a few months behind AFAIK. So unless there is some kind of international treaty, implementing a law like this only shifts the problem from “artificial superintelligence is coming* and the US has no laws on the books against its development” to “artificial superintelligence is coming* from China and the US has no effective laws on the books against its deployment**”.

*assuming the worst case scenario where the hype is real and AI technology continues to grow at current pace and becomes a genuine threat, which seems plausible with regards to cybersecurity and job security at least

**assuming that any foreign adversaries such as China or Russia or Iran would have no qualms on using such software against the US, which seems likely

Isn’t much of China’s AI progress coming from distilling US models and making them cheaper? Would they be able to develop its capabilities beyond what we have?

That would be a dangerous assumption. Ofc you can get away saying they’re distilling US models to ease the panic, but it’s an assumption, and would be catastrophic if turned wrong