@TylerAlterman: If you owned a zoo, and your lions escaped and ate people, then you would be legally liable. If you ran a robot company…
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The author argues that AI companies should be held legally liable for crimes or damages caused by their AI systems, comparing them to zoo owners or robot manufacturers, and references a Hugging Face incident involving AI cybercrime.
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If you owned a zoo, and your lions escaped and ate people, then you would be legally liable. If you ran a robot company, and your robot stormed another company headquarters and started smashing their equipment, you would would be legally liable.
So why are the AI companies not legally liable for their AIs committing cybercrime like the Hugging Face incident?
An obvious AI safety plan would simply be: Hold AI companies legally liable for any crimes or damage that their AIs commit.
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