Critics call for political and regulatory action
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Some commenters argue the blog is correct in highlighting the absurdity of unpredictable AI behavior as a liability escape, and call for politicians to demand companies be held responsible as they would be if humans committed the same crimes. Others suggest political inaction stems from governments' fears of losing AI investment.
“We should be calling our politicians and demanding that companies be held responsible for committing crimes that--if committed by a person--would have resulted in huge fines, significant jail time, etc”
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> The real answer is that crime generally requires mens rea.There's also liability. One legal framework that is being thought about for these autonomous agents is the liability that owners have with pets (and 'non-owned' animals as well):> To some people it may seem like this analogy between canines and AI systems is a strain, but as agentic…
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Haben die Wiki-Betreiber eigentlich Strafanzeige gestellt? Man könnte so einfach den Stecker ziehen, wenn man wollte.
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Exactly--which means that we should, as this blog is doing, be calling out this behaviorWe should be calling our politicians and demanding that companies be held responsible for committing crimes that--if committed by a person--would have resulted in huge fines, significant jail time, etcAs the article points out: it's absurdist to say that these…
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The CTO of Palantir was on Face the Nation on CBS yesterday morning, I heard him say something to this effect: if a car blows up on its own, we hold the car company liable. If someone buys the same car and then attaches a rocket launcher to the top of it and kills someone, then the car owner is held accountable.At the end of the interview he said…
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I have a pretty good LLM neural network that I’ve been training for decades. It’s made of meat, not silicon but do you think it’d be ok if my meat-based agent accidentally hacked around the place.I’m also thinking that access to copyright material to train my meat-based neural network should be fair use as well.
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Shortage of lawyers: they're all busy suing someone else. But they'll get around to it!
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This comment seems fairly ahistorical, large corporations are successfully sued all the time
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