Manufactured products are generally safe because the economic costs of shipping unsafe products is too high. Legal fees, litigation, products liability insuranc

Manufactured products are generally safe because the economic costs of shipping unsafe products is too high. Legal fees, litigation, products liability insurance, judgement costs, UL certifications, OSHA compliance and inspection costs, etc. It took several generations for the risks to be understood and for politicians to succumb to public pressure and enact product safety / tort legislation. It would be nice for Congress to get in front of this issue and legislate penalties for unsafe AI. It would be nice for the debate to simply begin. But, products liability as a guide, it will be several highly publicized incidents before meaningful protections are enacted. We're still waiting for meaningful privacy legislation, after many information breaches, and there has been little progress. Its one thing for Musk to warn of the dangers of AI, its another for he and like minded folks to fund a lobby to advocate for protective legislation.