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Deodands put a price on objects that caused death

115 points · 42 comments · samizdis

  1. 59percentmore · · focus · HN ↗
    >What would a medieval jury do, tasked to rule on an AI encouraging suicide or murder?

    An interesting conundrum. Is the maker of the AI considered to have been practicing magic and summoning a demon? The user? What's the movable chattel object in this case?

    1. senkora · · focus · HN ↗
      I'd probably consider the individual inference machine (GPU, TPU, etc.) to be the deodand in that case.
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