I guess it all depends on the type of illegal activity! For spam—certainly. But for hacking, covertly developing malicious software, covertly developing bioweapons, covertly training AIs on scraped/pirated intellectual property*, conducting research in banned fields/topics, etc. I imagine probably not?
(* I have no idea whether this is even a crime—and if it is I’m not entirely convinced it should be! - but if it’s not I’m sure there are other things you could do with an AI that don’t have to leave the datacentre to be illegal)
I guess it all depends on the type of illegal activity! For spam—certainly. But for hacking, covertly developing malicious software, covertly developing bioweapons, covertly training AIs on scraped/pirated intellectual property*, conducting research in banned fields/topics, etc. I imagine probably not?
(* I have no idea whether this is even a crime—and if it is I’m not entirely convinced it should be! - but if it’s not I’m sure there are other things you could do with an AI that don’t have to leave the datacentre to be illegal)