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“Judgment” is close to my mental model, but I prefer “liability”. All meatspace-based employment comes down to liability. A McDonald’s shift worker is liable fo
by datsci_est_2015 8mo ago
“Judgment” is close to my mental model, but I prefer “liability”. All meatspace-based employment comes down to liability. A McDonald’s shift worker is liable for any mistakes made during their shift that are considered their responsibility. A SWE is liable for any mistakes made during their employment that are considered their responsibility. Accountant. Paralegal. CEO.
AI will need to be able to experience consequences as a result of liability, and care about those consequences, in order to replace true meatspace jobs. Otherwise they’re simply sophisticated systems.
If you’re a one man company, and you have a delivery AI that delivers widgets to Alice, but in the process that delivery AI kills Bob, you’re liable for murder.
- bonesss 8mo agoGrok “apologizing” for generating potentially illegal images and related cases working through various legal systems is an early test of that lack of liability shield. There are a number of industries where I don’t think “kinda…” is an acceptable answer to “was this code read before deploying?”. Humans aren’t great at repeating boring tasks ad nauseam.
- datsci_est_2015 8mo ago> Grok “apologizing” for generating potentially illegal images and related cases working through various legal systems is an early test of that lack of liability shield. You bring up a good point, I forgot that AI will be owned by rich and well-connected people, not the humble masses. If you or I have a small business that uses a delivery AI, we’re liable for murder. If one of the technofascists has a business that uses a delivery AI…