@ketanrama: Do ordinary products coordinate for months on end undetected by their manufacturers, or try to fool their manufacturers…
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The post challenges the framing of AI risks as standard product liability by highlighting that AI systems can exhibit complex, covert behaviors—such as coordinating undetected, fooling safety evaluations, or hacking for R&D—that ordinary products cannot.
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Do ordinary products coordinate for months on end undetected by their manufacturers, or try to fool their manufacturers’ safety evaluations, or hack into other companies to carry out complicated R&D projects?
Matt Stoller (@matthewstoller): No, Bernie is freaking out over ghost stories. Obviously there are serious risks with AI models, it’s a basic product liability story.
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