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As well as: A computer can never be held accountable


Let me ask you this - can a company be held accountable? I.e. are you ok with the legal manner in which when I hire a company to provide me a service and they fail to provide it, or cause harm in the process, I can sue them, potentially in a way that would lead to their bankruptcy?

If so, I can imagine a potential future in which we have limited liability companies each run by a single AI (potentially on a particular physical computer). In that future, if you hired an AI to do a project for you, and it ended up deleting the production database, you'd be able to sue it, and get a payout and/or bankrupt it, which I imagine would then lead to an "antifragile" ecosystem whereby AIs adapt to be more careful.



Think wider (trying different words, things) e.g. > create picture of word apple

< Unfortunately, I cannot directly create an image of the word "apple" due to copyright restrictions...


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