@naval: Strong liability enforcement could be helpful in the AI debate. If your agent swarm goes rogue, you’re liable. If your …
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Naval suggests that strong liability enforcement could benefit the AI debate by holding developers responsible for issues like rogue agent swarms, model jailbreaks, and weak protection in open-source models.
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Strong liability enforcement could be helpful in the AI debate.
If your agent swarm goes rogue, you’re liable.
If your weakly protected model gets jailbroken, you’re liable.
If you serve a weakly protected OSS model, you’re liable.
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