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Is A.I. Above the Law?

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dgellow · 1790276080 · focus · HN ↗
The level of technical understanding of journalists is so deplorably low… There is no rogue agents. That’s not a thing. Nothing about the HuggingFace incident has anything to do with an agent going rogue. It’s standard software that resulted in a hack, which is pretty much the expected output of the system OpenAI engineers implemented.
The company is obviously responsible for what their systems are doing
1. binlog · 1790277394 · focus · HN ↗
  The level of legal understanding among technical experts is equally low. The cybersecurity laws as currently written require intent. No OpenAI employee can be held liable since it’s pretty easy to prove they weren’t intending to hack anyone – they didn’t even know about it till much later.
  1. lokar · 1790277730 · focus · HN ↗
    Is that true for civil cases, or just criminal? I would think for civil, negligence would be a factor.
    binlog · 1790278298 · focus · HN ↗
    Sure, but that is a separate conversation. You can sue OpenAI if you can show damages from their actions, for this or any other reason.

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