e/acc figure slams EA proposals to criminalize open-source models with 20-year jail terms
beffjezos · x · 2026-09-15
- e/acc blogger beffjezos attacks proposals attributed to a PauseAI volunteer who is also a research engineer at Conjecture.
- The quoted proposals: if the US and China jointly halt AI progress, downloading, possessing, running or distributing open-source models should carry jail terms of up to 20 years; all known AI researchers would be under government surveillance; papers could be scrubbed from the internet.
- beffjezos calls these ideas extremist, arguing they would entrench permanent Big Lab monopoly over synthetic thought and push total surveillance of AI research and criminalization of open source.
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