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[–] 48 points 1 month ago (9 children)

"Who bears legal responsibility when an agent blows past its guardrails and causes real-world harm?"

That is very easy to answer - the person being responsible for what is running on that hardware when it's personal hardware, and in corporate environments the manager who is responsible for deploying the agent and the engineers who didn't ensure this doesn't happen if they failed in their responsibilities by not monitoring the system (dependent on if the manager even allowed suffcient ressources for monitoring, if not, they should also not share the blame)

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  • [–] 29 points 1 month ago (8 children)

    AI is a tool

    Similarly you can't blame a hammer for causing harm, you blame the individual who holds it.

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  • [–] 4 points 1 month ago (2 children)

    If you crush someone's skull with a hammer, you are responsible, not the person who made the hammer. But what if you crush someone's skull with a hammer that was sold to you as a head massager?

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  • [–] 2 points 1 month ago

    Sort of. With something as simple as a hammer sure, but when the hammer is equipped with a 9mm pistol then it falls under different safety standards that deem the tool inherently unsafe. A physical tool would be recalled if somebody got hurt in an unintended way.

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