I think the current state if autonomous cars is “there must be a human driver inside anyway, and take over if the machine does something wrong”, which means the liability is pushed on the customer.
So I would assume the same would happen with AIs. Especially when it is your hands actually doing the things an AI told you to. Like, GPT-4 gave you a recipe that poisoned your family, but you should have thought about it before following the recipe (even if the way it made the result poisonous is not obvious, e.g. the ingredients seemed harmless, but their combination and way of cooking created some poison).
I assume you could successfully sue the company if it made a harmful exception for you, e.g. if it hardcoded to the autonomous car algorithm “if the driver is jmh, and the car is in the middle of a bridge in the rightmost lane, turn sharply to the right and accelerate”. But you would have to prove that it happened.
Mercedes-Benz, the corporation, is assuming practically all liability for their fanciest Level 3 autonomous S-class cars in Germany. Assuming all the rules and restrictions regarding the usage of the autonomous mode were observed.
So there’s a precedent, that will inevitably be used in future arguments, for having the manufacturer assume liability.
Though in the case of AI, I’m unsure who the manufacturer would be.
I think the current state if autonomous cars is “there must be a human driver inside anyway, and take over if the machine does something wrong”, which means the liability is pushed on the customer.
So I would assume the same would happen with AIs. Especially when it is your hands actually doing the things an AI told you to. Like, GPT-4 gave you a recipe that poisoned your family, but you should have thought about it before following the recipe (even if the way it made the result poisonous is not obvious, e.g. the ingredients seemed harmless, but their combination and way of cooking created some poison).
I assume you could successfully sue the company if it made a harmful exception for you, e.g. if it hardcoded to the autonomous car algorithm “if the driver is jmh, and the car is in the middle of a bridge in the rightmost lane, turn sharply to the right and accelerate”. But you would have to prove that it happened.
Mercedes-Benz, the corporation, is assuming practically all liability for their fanciest Level 3 autonomous S-class cars in Germany. Assuming all the rules and restrictions regarding the usage of the autonomous mode were observed.
So there’s a precedent, that will inevitably be used in future arguments, for having the manufacturer assume liability.
Though in the case of AI, I’m unsure who the manufacturer would be.