Comment by pjc50
4 hours ago
In practice, hardly anyone seems to care about even quite serious cyberattacks, and consequences are only ever visited on powerless individuals.
Obviously https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gary_McKinnon would get the book thrown at him, but a major AI company doing the same thing? Consequences would be bad for shareholder value! Elite impunity would apply.
Because there’s usually nobody to sue. When a company claiming to be worth trillions is behind the attack it’s a very different situation. That’s a litigation goldmine.