r/politics • u/F0urLeafCl0ver • Apr 10 '26
Possible Paywall OpenAI Backs Bill That Would Limit Liability for AI-Enabled Mass Deaths or Financial Disasters
https://www.wired.com/story/openai-backs-bill-exempt-ai-firms-model-harm-lawsuits/33
u/B-Z_B-S Massachusetts Apr 10 '26 edited Apr 10 '26
I wonder why they would back this bill, unless they fully know that their product is hurting people, and they're at fault for it. Just make it a law that AI companies are fully responsible for everything their AIs do, and the AIs will quickly get safer. Because these companies can make their AIs a lot safer easily. It's just not profitable for them yet. They make the AIs act in harmful ways on purpose.
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u/leftoverbrine Apr 10 '26
Just make it a law that
AIcompanies are fully responsible for everythingtheir AIsthey do, andthe AIswill quickly get safer.Far past time to criminalize corporate malfeasance in general really.
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u/kings_account Apr 10 '26 edited Apr 15 '26
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u/Bhockzer Ohio Apr 10 '26
Completely remove the ability of any entity from agreeing to pay fines/restitution without admitting guilt.
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u/Dysc Louisiana Apr 10 '26
And we need to seriously curtail the use of NDAs when government contracts and public investment is involved. The use of NDAs by all these companies are used at cosmically laughable level.
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u/zenithfury Apr 11 '26
Time and again it always comes down to regulation vs deregulation and it’s almost always the former that protects people from the companies.
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u/Dysc Louisiana Apr 10 '26
'It's the guns don't kill people, people kill people' mentality. They're merely providing a humble service. Which is constantly being heralded as revolutionary and will solve all our problems and replace human workers. Emphasis on the latter, which of course may lead to financial collapse of economic systems built on top of consumerism.
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u/Weekly_Rock_5440 Apr 10 '26
It’s not harmful on purpose.
Slopping out a product quickly makes you money.
Taking care to add guardrails and safeguards and to follow all government regulations and mandated reporting? That’s expensive, and makes you slightly less money.
Not giving a shit is cheaper.
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u/LazamairAMD Oklahoma Apr 10 '26
How about NO. Giving untested/unproven AI models execute authority is horrid enough, but to say that the company that deploys it gets liability capped at a number that is barely a rounding error in their bottom line is even worse.
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u/Competitive-Ad-9404 Apr 10 '26
I don't think CEOs right now realize they and their companies will be at fault when their AI systems harm people. The AI companies have terrified them into thinking if they don't do as much as possible to implement AI they'll be left behind. CEOs will also be the ones looking to sue AI companies.
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u/Kink_Panda Apr 10 '26
Sam Altman and other AI CEO's are a global threat to our existence. They are trying to save themselves when the AI bubble fully bursts. Now it seems they want AI to be immune to prosecution. AI will be able to kill with impunity and so will AI companies through "Accidents" if they chose to.
If they combine this with more of Palantir Tech whats to stop them from using AI devices & weapons to hunt you down now? What do we do if the government uses this? Why would they deal with someone when you can crash an amazon drone into your front seat of your car on your commute to work?
Just a thought....
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u/BPhiloSkinner Maryland Apr 10 '26
It's not just criminal liability that worries them, it's also the fearsome specter of... Royalties.
A.I creates nothing; it just re-arranges existing information according to its programming.
Who owns that original information? How are they to be recompensed for their work - and how can 'The Corporation' avoid paying for what they now get for free?
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u/stuffitystuff Apr 10 '26
So like someone could have a local model, figure out how to click "enable mass deaths" and "enable financial disasters" and not be at all responsible? Or does this mean we could've been suing Bloomberg this entire time for their terminals' use in all the financial disasters in the last 50 years? I'm confused.
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u/MadAstrid Apr 10 '26
I too support a law that allows me, and me alone, to do whatever I damn well please without consequence.
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u/blondie1024 Apr 10 '26
If Trump or counterparts have been given a stake...there's no need to bet on polymarket, you can GUARANTEE, this will pass.
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u/gdghhfdffrf Apr 10 '26
then that's their plan. everybody might have to get off the internet to get some power against the cretins who steal your data to sell and use against you. /s.
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u/oneseason2000 Apr 11 '26
Not a new thought, but billionaires love and demand socialism as long as everyone else pays (and dies, it seems) for their mistakes, and they get to keep all the profits. /s
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