About whether current AI systems can reason abstractly and actually learn.
Has this happened?
Yes 48 (39%)Not sure 51 (41%)No 24 (20%)
Votes cast 1–2 October 2026: 100,590 votes from 9,694 people.
Hacker News has set AI a lot of challenges over the years. Which ones has it met?
About whether current AI systems can reason abstractly and actually learn.
Votes cast 1–2 October 2026: 100,590 votes from 9,694 people.
Your argument seems to be that it's fine to break the law if the net outcome for society is positive.
In any other context, this would be known as "civil disobediance". It's generally considered something to applaud.
For what it's worth, I haven't made up my mind about the current state of AI. I haven't yet seen an ability for the systems to perform abstract reasoning, to _actually_ learn. (Show me an AI that has been fed with nothing but examples in languages A and B. Then demonstrate, conclusively, that it can apply the lessons it has learned in language M, which happens to be nothing like the first two.)