Comment by verdverm

1 day ago

Rule 3, humans remain responsible

https://susam.net/inverse-laws-of-robotics.html

> Humans must remain fully responsible for decisions involving AI and accountable for the consequences arising from its use. If a negative outcome occurs as a result of following AI-generated advice or decisions, it is not sufficient to say, 'the AI told us to do it'. AI systems do not choose goals, deploy themselves or bear the costs of failure. Humans and organisations do. An AI system is a tool and like any other tool, responsibility for its use rests with the people who decide to rely on it.

Ideally, yes, but much like guns, we've found it difficult to stop murders by punishing the people who do them. Turns out it's more efficient to (also) reduce access to certain tools.

  • Reducing access to a weapon/tool behind any variety of roadblocks because you think the weapon/tool is dangerous is not the same as shifting blame off of the person who did the crime. Saying we don't want people to be able to buy guns without limitations or even saying people should not be allowed to make or sell certain kinds of weapons/tools is not the same thing as saying the person who jumped through the hoops (or ducked underneath them) is not liable for the crime they committed using the weapon/tool. It is certainly the case that no one, at the end of the day, claims the gun is to blame for the murder a human carries out with it... some people will claim maybe the humans making or selling the gun share some blame, but it would be a fundamental attribution error to blame the gun itself.

Yeah but did they account for capitalism when creating those rules?

  • my sense is the the historical pendulum of capital-labor is starting to head back from the extreme

    eg. "oligarch" is used more frequently by more people