I didn’t cover negligence in my post but I cover it in the article. The main issue I see is that negligence requires foreseeability of a crime and recklessness. It’s hard to say the common user would foresee a crime, at least currently. They are prompting in a legal direction so they don’t directly foresee illegality. It’s also hard to argue recklessness for AI developers when they’re explicitly putting in safeguards and explicitly state that the AI should not commit crime.
I do think some of our existing laws will catch some situations, and users who give prompts that are borderline suggestive of crimes. You’re right that some users may be reckless, and I particularly think users who jailbreak an AI will definitely be reckless. There’s also good laws on conspiracies and RICO as you mentioned.
My main concern is that AI may have a greater capacity to break down a task into subtasks than a human could, and hire more humans for more innocent subtasks. If a human does know or suspect then obviously they’d be liable, the issue is how small these tasks could be.
I didn’t cover negligence in my post but I cover it in the article. The main issue I see is that negligence requires foreseeability of a crime and recklessness. It’s hard to say the common user would foresee a crime, at least currently. They are prompting in a legal direction so they don’t directly foresee illegality. It’s also hard to argue recklessness for AI developers when they’re explicitly putting in safeguards and explicitly state that the AI should not commit crime.
I do think some of our existing laws will catch some situations, and users who give prompts that are borderline suggestive of crimes. You’re right that some users may be reckless, and I particularly think users who jailbreak an AI will definitely be reckless. There’s also good laws on conspiracies and RICO as you mentioned.
My main concern is that AI may have a greater capacity to break down a task into subtasks than a human could, and hire more humans for more innocent subtasks. If a human does know or suspect then obviously they’d be liable, the issue is how small these tasks could be.