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Who should be held accountable when an AI Agent (accidentally) acts maliciously?

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  1. throwitaway222 · · focus · HN ↗
    We had the same debate when self driving cars started to be a thing, and we decided that the companies making the self-driving tech are responsible..

    So if an AI agent is asked to build a giant base for someone in MineCraft, and decided to build a swarm of additional agents, and one of those agents says "Time to destroy all humans" and autonomously hacks into the pentagon and fires the nukes - the company that developed the model is responsible. That being said - if the nukes deploy successfully, I have two questions:

    1. If no one finds out, is anyone responsible?

    2. Was any of this actually real?

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