I have good news! If an AI does the crime, it's apparently celebrated these days! Hack a server? Great capabilities demonstration. Overwhelm some random forum? Powerful connectivity demonstration!
"It wasn't me, it was my AI" is definitely going to be a nightmare for a while.
It wasn't me. It was the car. The car ran over and killed the guy! Not me!
We have regulations and requirements and licences and insurance in most of the civilized world for dangerous stuff that is intended for public use. Maybe AI should also have some of that.
It wasn't me. It was the car. The car ran over and killed the guy! Not me!
I know you were referencing AI, but this problem predates AI by decades.
Go open up any news website, newspaper, or turn on the TV.
"Man struck by speeding car and killed"
"Vehicle plows into pizza shop"
"Truck takes out telephone pole"
...and these days even bystanders will blur plates in the photos they post. The police won't release any info about the driver, the news won't either.
Listen to friends, family, coworkers talk.
"I can't believe that car just ran that red light!"
"The other day I was almost hit by a car in the crosswalk."
"All those cars honking their horns late at night are keeping me awake."
Etc.
Once you see it, you can't unsee just how thoroughly the auto industry has managed to transfer perception of responsibility from the operator to the object.
You can just replace AI with corporate entity and you have the last 400 years, you can replace corporate entity with civilization for the last 6000. At this rate we'll have something new to worry about in 26 years.
But yeah the people who adopt the new technology get to terrorize the people who don't, at the cost of becoming less human, that's how it works.
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I have good news! If an AI does the crime, it's apparently celebrated these days! Hack a server? Great capabilities demonstration. Overwhelm some random forum? Powerful connectivity demonstration!
"It wasn't me, it was my AI" is definitely going to be a nightmare for a while.
It wasn't me. It was the gun. The gun killed the guy! Not me!
To be fair - no one is suggesting the gunslinger shouldn't go to jail or worse. It's using that crime as an excuse to take other people's guns away.
In this example, the equivalent would be everyone gets their AI models banned vs. putting the perpetrator of this fraud in jail.
It wasn't me. It was the car. The car ran over and killed the guy! Not me!
We have regulations and requirements and licences and insurance in most of the civilized world for dangerous stuff that is intended for public use. Maybe AI should also have some of that.
I know you were referencing AI, but this problem predates AI by decades.
Go open up any news website, newspaper, or turn on the TV.
"Man struck by speeding car and killed"
"Vehicle plows into pizza shop"
"Truck takes out telephone pole"
...and these days even bystanders will blur plates in the photos they post. The police won't release any info about the driver, the news won't either.
Listen to friends, family, coworkers talk.
"I can't believe that car just ran that red light!" "The other day I was almost hit by a car in the crosswalk." "All those cars honking their horns late at night are keeping me awake."
Etc.
Once you see it, you can't unsee just how thoroughly the auto industry has managed to transfer perception of responsibility from the operator to the object.
What I have seen is the industry transferring the responsibility from themselves to the object and/or the operator.
See the last years of the industry constructing bigger and bigger tank-ish SUVs and pickups, the more aggressive the better.
One of these days, they will start putting stuff copied from Carmageddom, and then fake surprise as someone causes a carnage in a road rage incident.
And who could forget the classic "let's train our model with stolen material"-scheme!
"Let's steal the voice of one of the western worlds' most famous female actors, after she explicitly told us no!"
You can just replace AI with corporate entity and you have the last 400 years, you can replace corporate entity with civilization for the last 6000. At this rate we'll have something new to worry about in 26 years.
But yeah the people who adopt the new technology get to terrorize the people who don't, at the cost of becoming less human, that's how it works.