alt Hacker NewsBased on the comments here and the content of the post... I sort of agree. But maybe less so directly with their gatekeeping. But maybe we should formalize closer to "real professions".
And if we think college degrees don't matter, there's plenty of professions that require time on the job, rotations, flying low/no passenger planes, and so on.
We require people get a license to own a firearm (or ostensibly should...). And AI can be an extremely powerful weapon.
I see a gatekeeping argument. I don't agree with their requirements. I'd rather see that regulation than banning models.
It also has the side effect of preventing AI from taking jobs as aggressively, keeping it at bay in schools, and getting people to maybe respect(?) / acknowledge the dangers involved here.
What you are saying is impractical, we cannot uninvent AI or force all countries to abandon it, a simple laptop is sufficient compute to run it. Licensing to access AI cannot be implemented. Why stop at AI, maybe we should license people to use the internet as well? Own computers? Electricity could also be a powerful weapon, should we only trust some people to have electricity?