Comment by BobbyTables2
10 hours ago
I don’t think lack of regulation is necessarily it.
If I build a robot that murders my neighbor, I’m still at fault.
We don’t absolve drivers of responsibility because of cruise control.
In that sense, AI is nothing new. If it is abused to cause harm, the person behind it should be liable.
If you buy car, someone hacks it, starts it, and drives over someone fully remotely, are you to blame for owning the car? Or the manufacturer? Or the hacker? Or the certification agency for the car security? Or the shell company owning the certification agency?
What if a person physically broke into the car and did the same thing? Clearly they are the one to blame then.
The whole person in the loop is liable is already an outdated concept when decisions are made beyond the persons physical control.
The hacker will be charged as a criminal as a societal deterrent against weaponizing digital systems. The manufacturer and shell companies could have structural liability if found to be negligent and cutting corners or lacked isolated drive-by-wire controls. It's unlikely that the owner would ever be held liable unless they jailbroke their car disabling security systems.
The hacker was a process that was spawned by some subprocesses that were corrupted by other processes and, etc. Check my other comment... The point is that in the physical realm this is already done by having shell of shell of shell companies to avoid taxes and accountability. In the digital realm this is much much cheaper
There's nothing new about any of this liability attachment. You're saying these things like they're novel.
If GM does something (or fails to do something) to their vehicle that causes me to crash, they're liable for the crash.
If someone cuts my brake lines (alters my vehicle) and I crash my car and kill someone, the person that cut the lines is responsible. I have to prove the context of course, and or an investigator has to do so.
And the responsible entity may refuse to pay up, may refuse to take responsibility. None of that is new either.
Well the difference is that in the software realm, you can attach infinite loops of delegation and ownership at close to no cost, which makes this impossible to investigate conclusively.
Let's say that OpenAI used a shell company that hosts server where an agent spun up another agent on instructions from another agent which was corrupted by bit errors from the inference framework which caused some major hack to happen. Its impossible to investigate in the same way as physical issues. What if the model is open-source, who is responsible then? What if it's open source but another process altered the weights?
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