New California bill might block the "AI did it" defense in civil cases
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Re: New California bill might block the "AI did it" defense in civil cases
#2How would user vs developer be distinguished? Looks like it mentions both users and developers but doesnt distinguish how one would be found liable
Re: New California bill might block the "AI did it" defense in civil cases
#3I hope when they mean AI developers, it means the owners of the IP, and not the actual devs working on it.
Re: New California bill might block the "AI did it" defense in civil cases
#4How would user vs developer be distinguished? Looks like it mentions both users and developers but doesnt distinguish how one would be found liable
Not a new question: "the AI did it" is an equivalent of "the gun did it" or "the car did it".
Re: New California bill might block the "AI did it" defense in civil cases
#5This bill sucks, a developer should never be held accountable for software they work on or produce.
Re: New California bill might block the "AI did it" defense in civil cases
#6"A computer can never be held accountable, therefore a computer must never make a management decision" - IBM 1979
Re: New California bill might block the "AI did it" defense in civil cases
#7How would user vs developer be distinguished? Looks like it mentions both users and developers but doesnt distinguish how one would be found liable
> This bill would prohibit a defendant that developed or used artificial intelligence, as defined, from asserting a defense that the artificial intelligence autonomously caused the harm to the plaintiff.
I am not sure the distinction matters?
Re: New California bill might block the "AI did it" defense in civil cases
#8This bill sucks, a developer should never be held accountable for software they work on or produce.
But then won't you get a bunch of things that have tons of fine print that no one reads that say do not use it for these purposes. Then have users use them for those purposes harming others?
Re: New California bill might block the "AI did it" defense in civil cases
#9How would user vs developer be distinguished? Looks like it mentions both users and developers but doesnt distinguish how one would be found liable
Not a new question: "the AI did it" is an equivalent of "the gun did it" or "the car did it".
> or "the car did it".
Tesla gives you the old with the new.
Re: New California bill might block the "AI did it" defense in civil cases
#10It's unclear whether this applies to state law enforcement or only the citizenship. It also seems to focus not on "invalidating the defense" but on "punishing the developers" which is more than a little weird.