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Replace AI with 'company' and you realize that we're living in that world already. There's a reason it's called a Limited Liability Company. The whole point is
by throwaway13337 24d ago
Replace AI with 'company' and you realize that we're living in that world already.
There's a reason it's called a Limited Liability Company. The whole point is to separate the company's liability from the individual that participates in it. For example, corporate financial liabilities of a company that is bankrupt.
You would not sue the nurse that makes a mistake. You would sue the company she works for. And if that company is bankrupt, well, that's it. There are rare instances where this isn't true, but generally it is.
Whether this is ethical or not, it's the system that we already have.
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- daveguy 24d agoI don't think they meant the nurse would be responsible. The LLC would and should be fucked in that case.
- wizardforhire 24d agoAnd I think the apprehension can be summed with “good luck with that”
- davidgay 24d agoI could've sworn that malpractice insurance cost is viewed as one of the driver's of high health care costs, and that it's expensive precisely because medical lawsuit payouts are large...
- shermantanktop 24d agoInsurance and HMO CEOs salaries come from somewhere, and it’s not malpractice judgments.
- throwaway13337 24d agoWhether the company employs a human nurse or an AI, the company and not a human is indeed considered the responsible party. The LLC might be fucked but it is not a flesh-and-blood person. There is no person responsible. Just a legal entity. So nothing is changed. I think we're in agreement?
- engeljohnb 24d agoDo you think there's no difference in material outcomes when a company faces consequences of a specific human nurse being negligent vs an AI hallucinating?
- mindslight 23d agoYour understanding of LLCs is a bit off. The LLC (or other corporate) structure does not protect the nurse from liability, nor any of the other directly-involved workers. The LLC protects the owners of the LLC - ie the ones turning the screws that spread workers ever-more thin. Workers generally avoid being sued mostly by custom, following procedures set by the LLC and/or professional bodies, being "judgement proof" (ie not having significant assets), and various types of insurances. ("Replace AI with 'company' and you realize that we're living in that world already." I 100% agree with this, though!)