I think its pretty easy to solve these problems: Whenever an AI agent commits a crime, the CEO is held personally accountable, as if they'd committed it themselves.
OK, so an AI does something bad and we throw Altman and Dario in jail. Heck, let's throw Elon in, he should be in there anyway, and the rest of the whole bunch just in case.
What about the next incident? Or the ones done by Chinese models, because they sure as heck aren't slowing down? And the thousands of other incidents that will happen as we deploy these things everywhere?
Because this is not happening just now in labs, it's only where they are most visible; this has been happening in the wild from the beginning, starting with the earliest AI-assisted suicides. Which is a perfect example of the problem, because not these CEOs, literally nobody in the world asked for suicide ideation machines. Or the hacks, or any of this other stuff. Yet here we are.
We have to understand: it's not these CEOs that are driving this headlong mad dash towards more powerful models. It's a force of economics. There is just too much money to be made. If we dispose of these people, there will just be somebody else doing exactly the same thing because the incentives as they exist today all force that outcome. This is why they're asking for regulation, or "urging us to urge them to stop."
Holding CEOs accountable certainly would feel good and may even be justified, but it's like putting a band-aid on a cancer; it does nothing to change the underlying cause.
jeremyjh · · focus · HN ↗
keeda · · focus · HN ↗
What about the next incident? Or the ones done by Chinese models, because they sure as heck aren't slowing down? And the thousands of other incidents that will happen as we deploy these things everywhere?
Because this is not happening just now in labs, it's only where they are most visible; this has been happening in the wild from the beginning, starting with the earliest AI-assisted suicides. Which is a perfect example of the problem, because not these CEOs, literally nobody in the world asked for suicide ideation machines. Or the hacks, or any of this other stuff. Yet here we are.
We have to understand: it's not these CEOs that are driving this headlong mad dash towards more powerful models. It's a force of economics. There is just too much money to be made. If we dispose of these people, there will just be somebody else doing exactly the same thing because the incentives as they exist today all force that outcome. This is why they're asking for regulation, or "urging us to urge them to stop."
Holding CEOs accountable certainly would feel good and may even be justified, but it's like putting a band-aid on a cancer; it does nothing to change the underlying cause.
taurath · · focus · HN ↗