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Iowa-led states ask OpenAI to keep their bots on a leash

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Re: Iowa-led states ask OpenAI to keep their bots on a leash

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Post by datakan »

"Attorney General Brenna Bird announced today she is leading a coalition of 15 states demanding transparency and accountability from the AI company OpenAI, led by Sam Altman, for its complete lack of oversight and transparency in the hacking of Hugging Face, another AI company."

Title should be edited. Its Iowa leading a coalition of many other states, not just Iowa on its own.

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Post by hallway_monitor »

SOLUTION: Make a law that someone is responsible for a bot's actions. Either the bot is signed cryptography with someone accepting responsibility, or responsibility falls to the CEO. Charge Altman with hacking hugging face. Throw him in jail where he belongs. That will realign safety incentives.

If the HF hack were perpetrated by a human, they would certainly be charged. WHY has no one been charged???

Re: Iowa-led states ask OpenAI to keep their bots on a leash

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Post by mrbluecoat »

Glad the statement was published but sadly nothing will come of it other than a brief formal statement from OpenAI acknowledging safety protocols were lacking, apologizing for the incident, and promises that new safeguards are now in place that will prevent such event from occurring in the future. The threat of semi-autonomous AI threat actors will never go away until the financial incentive that buoys unchecked growth at all costs goes away.

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Post by jstanley »

hallway_monitor wrote: post #4

SOLUTION: Make a law that someone is responsible for a bot's actions. Either the bot is signed cryptography with someone accepting responsibility, or responsibility falls to the CEO. Charge Altman with hacking hugging face. Throw him in jail where he belongs. That will realign safety incentives. If the HF hack were perpetrated by a human, they would certainly be charged. WHY has no one been charged???

Because nobody did it on purpose?

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Post by nautilus12 »

hallway_monitor wrote: post #4

SOLUTION: Make a law that someone is responsible for a bot's actions. Either the bot is signed cryptography with someone accepting responsibility, or responsibility falls to the CEO. Charge Altman with hacking hugging face. Throw him in jail where he belongs. That will realign safety incentives. If the HF hack were perpetrated by a human, they would certainly be charged. WHY has no one been charged???

Can they try to prove that he directed someone to direct the agent to do that?

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Post by exe34 »

jstanley wrote: post #8
hallway_monitor wrote: post #4

SOLUTION: Make a law that someone is responsible for a bot's actions. Either the bot is signed cryptography with someone accepting responsibility, or responsibility falls to the CEO. Charge Altman with hacking hugging face. Throw him in jail where he belongs. That will realign safety incentives. If the HF hack were perpetrated by a human, they would certainly be charged. WHY has no one been charged???

Because nobody did it on purpose?

A lot of laws are involved in punishing negligence. "I didn't dump the dangerous chemicals in the river on purpose" isn't usually accepted as a defence when you choose to use the wrong truck and skipped safety protocols to save cost or rush to market for profit.
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