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> If we don't establish strict liability now, we're in for an era of stochastic crimes that go unpunished for anyone who is not rich or a large corporation. I
by Nition 21d ago
> If we don't establish strict liability now, we're in for an era of stochastic crimes that go unpunished for anyone who is not rich or a large corporation.
I very much agree with this - making AI companies explicitly responsible if their internal AI causes hacks etc could do a lot to improve their safety considerations.
But I wonder what the liability should be when it's a third party using the AI and that AI hacks, intentionally or not.
If a users tells ChatGPT to hack something and it succeeds, is the user the person responsible because they told the AI to hack, in the same way Victorinox is not responsible if you stab someone with one of their knives? Or is OpenAI to some extent responsible as well since they made a powerful tool without sufficiently strict safeguards? What about if the user was trying to do something legal and the AI made the decision to hack by itself?
- BoppreH 21d agoThat's exactly the questions that I expect to complicate cases, and force even the smallest chatbot malfunction to become an expensive legal ordeal. And why we should have strong answers to that before it becomes a widespread problem.
- Nition 21d agoIndeed. I hope something gets done.
- Schlagbohrer 20d agoThe total, complete lack of culpability for the 2008 economic crash and malfeasance that led up to it has set a very very bad precedent for holding powerful, wealthy corporations and their executives responsible for crimes done by the org, or in this case by software created by the org.