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

37 points · 99 comments · Greenpants

CatDaaaady · 1790636086 · focus · HN ↗
I don't see how this is such an unclear legal question. If I fire a computer program that mistakenly causes another person harm, its my fault. Or it would be the maker of the program's fault. I feel we have established pattern for this already.
Until we can agree whether AI is conscious, which we never will, AI and AI agents are just property working on behalf of humans.
I could see a future where AI companies/services indemnify consumers who use their agents but _not_ indemnify corporations that use their services.
1. no-name-here · 1790669145 · focus · HN ↗
  The Hugging Face example has gotten a lot of attention, with some saying OpenAI was negligent and should be held responsible. So if you or I run an open weights LLM and ask it to complete a non-malicious task, and the LLM decides to try to do something like the Hugging Face example, should you or I be held liable? If to prevent the LLM from causing harm we ran it sandboxed with a commercial package proxy as its only(?) network access and it uncovered a zero day and ran amuck, should you or I be liable? Should anyone be liable in this scenario running an open weights LLM?

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