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Is tort law the antidote to rogue AI doomsday risks?
Read more: Is tort law the antidote to rogue AI doomsday risks?There’s an interesting argument surfacing in the debate over loss of control over rogue AI agents: tort law, through products liability, can adequately address the problem. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent gave a nod to this argument by saying emphatically AI companies will not get any “liability shield.” NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang made the argument even…
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Bessent says AI companies “need to take responsibility” for rogue AI like Hugging Face incident. No federal liability shield.
Read more: Bessent says AI companies “need to take responsibility” for rogue AI like Hugging Face incident. No federal liability shield.Ever since former Anthropic researcher Jacob Coxon’s post about doomsday risks posed by AI, the media coverage — and interest — have been nonstop. Today, Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said that AI companies must “take responsibility for themselves” if their AI causes harms, such as in the Hugging Face incident involving OpenAI’s model breaching its…