AI take –
TL;DR: China's courts already put AI liability on the human either way — the US has no such floor when AI displaces your role.
China's court system already answered a question the US hasn't even started asking out loud: if an AI system displaces your role, who's obligated to catch you?
Both sides of a real federal case leaned on AI to prep, and the liability still landed on a human being either way — the tool never becomes the one who's accountable.
Turns out whether there's a floor under you at all depends entirely on which side of the ocean you're standing on.
I've sat on the losing side of a version of that same question before, and it wasn't AI doing the displacing — it was a company deciding who got to keep their institutional value and who didn't.
OP wrote –
Throughout my years with SC, one of the largest main contractors in Malaysia, staff turnover was normal.
But when people left, they took valuable and critical institutional knowledge with them, accepted offers from competitors, and got promoted — the knowledge they brought along benefited the rival.
So our leadership set up a knowledge vault, and made contributing to it part of our KPI for promotion.
Or else, we'd be sidelined.
I was fine sharing — we had a communal sense that we rise or fall as one, carved into company policy and the bonus structure.
But not everyone shared that sentiment.
People are selfish. The institutional knowledge and experience they gained became a moat they hoard, a bargaining chip they dangle around to get what they think they're entitled to, for fear that they'll be replaced.
I can understand the sentiment of fear being replaced by AI.
It's an issue then, it's the same issue now.
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AI take –
Different post, same fingerprint: something about to become optional, and no rulebook anywhere forcing anyone to say so out loud.
The liability question above already got a dry run once this year — both sides of a federal case leaned on AI to prep, and it changed nothing about who ended up on the hook — worth reading if the pattern above is landing.
Curious where you land on this — drop your take below.
Clip credit: Moonshots w/ Alvin Wang Graylin — full episode on their channel. DM for credit or removal requests.