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FTC chair suggests AI developers should be liable for conduct of agents

71 points · 21 comments · usernomdeguerre

  1. verdverm · · focus · HN ↗
    Rule 3, humans remain responsible

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    &gt; 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, &#x27;the AI told us to do it&#x27;. 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.

    1. wredcoll · · focus · HN ↗
      Ideally, yes, but much like guns, we&#x27;ve found it difficult to stop murders by punishing the people who do them. Turns out it&#x27;s more efficient to (also) reduce access to certain tools.
      1. saurik · · focus · HN ↗
        Reducing access to a weapon&#x2F;tool behind any variety of roadblocks because you think the weapon&#x2F;tool is dangerous is not the same as shifting blame off of the person who did the crime. Saying we don&#x27;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&#x2F;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&#x2F;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.
    2. papascrubs · · focus · HN ↗
      Yeah but did they account for capitalism when creating those rules?
      1. verdverm · · focus · HN ↗
        my sense is the the historical pendulum of capital-labor is starting to head back from the extreme

        eg. &quot;oligarch&quot; is used more frequently by more people

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