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points by acidburnNSA 3 days ago | 0 comments

I've got frontier models doing pretty sophisticated nuclear reactor design and analysis using open-source nuclear fission reactor tools using open-source reactor designs as baselines. It is WILD how good they do.

[–] ta93754829 3 days ago

Nothing could go wrong

[–] acidburnNSA 3 days ago

Doing AI assisted enggineering to explore a space and then using classical methods to validate a point design for licensing is a good approach. In licensing the vendor and the regulator check things and then also verify many times during startup. The overall safety remains good.

[–] jacquesm 3 days ago

Up front: I totally believe you are doing your level best so please don't take this as trying to take you down, I just want to understand. In the hypothetical case that in 10 years time it turns out that that design was flawed who will be on the hook? You, the AI vendor, the regulator, the device vendor?

[–] acidburnNSA 2 days ago

Nuclear liability is always 100% held by the owner/operator by law in most countries. All manufacturers of equipment and components demand and are given indemnity.

[–] jacquesm 1 day ago

Thank you for the answer. I can see the indemnification as being a requirement to work on anything like this, the downsides would be so large as to be uninsurable so probably without that indemnification the work simply wouldn't get done.