Comment by ben_w

> 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".

It would be more like "Switch off all APIs right now. Don't even bother with a safe shutdown process, cut power to those buildings, including backup generators. You are free to use firearms or thermite if the switches have been locked off".

This would be a rather weird change to corporate law given CEOs are not by default held to that standard by anything else their products or staff do.

Note that I'm not entirely disagreeing with you here. It may even be correct to pass such a law. But it would be very weird.