Comment by ElProlactin

> Why have any laws then?

At this point, in the US at least, the laws give the corrupt elite the ability to deter competition and to target the people who try to get in their way.

In other words, it's protection for the potentate and his sycophants, not the plebs.

> If we passed a law that said the CEO of any company that deploys an LLM that commits a crime gets punished as if they personally did the crime (so, basically instant life sentence if it's even a simple crime times a million instances), I guarantee you the first email the CEO sends to the company is a "pause every LLM project we have - we gotta think about this".

Why do no such laws exist in practice? Why are corporate crimes almost always settled by payment, not individual punishment?

If you answer these questions, you'll know why the law you envision has a lower chance of being enacted than AI destroying humanity.