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Dumb's not department, really just a question of how good an AI you want to use. An AI will always be able to do something dumb, just like people.

I just mean an AI that could use a routing number or SSN and gmail/slack/whatever at the same time without a leak.

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Yea I think being able not to leak is the bare minimum? But it really depends on how good it is at specific applications; I wouldn't give a tax-preparation agent my SSN unless I was confident that it was no more likely to misfile my taxes than a professional tax preparer.

In other words, the risk of harm doesn't need to be zero, just less than the equivalent risk of a human with similar skillset. So I'm comfortable riding in a waymo, and not comfortable giving chatgpt my SSN at this moment in time, but I expect that within 5-10 years (assuming no doom) I will trust some AI agent with my SSN because they will be better at handling sensitive info than humans


Then again, given the Equifax/Experian data breaches, your SSN is already out there and probably hoovered up as training data already

The problem is not one of intelligence, it's one of consequences.

Humans face negative consequences for mishandling your data, LLMs face none.


I feel punishment is largely a means to the end of reducing overall harm. If a vehicle is less likely to kill me, that's my preferred option regardless of whether it achieved that safety through negative consequences for the driver or through gradient descent optimizing a loss function.

I will happily ride in a waymo today, even though the AI powering it faces no consequence if it gets in a crash; it is clear that waymo is safer than human drivers in the areas in which they operate, so who would technically be liable in the event of a crash isn't really of concern to me



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