One of the companies that gets hacked is eventually going to get mad and legal about it, though. A court is then going to decide who, if anyone, is liable when someone’s AI performs actions that amount to a crime. Based on their decision, either the business costs of running these types of AI models will rise dramatically, or “the AI did it” will become the ultimate “get out of jail free” card.
No I absolutely agree with you, I just don’t think they will get away with saying ‘it’s the AI’s fault’ regardless of whoever eventually gets a lawsuit against them. I just don’t. If they use that defence and it does end up working, then I’ve lost all hope in humanity
Thing is, the victims of the hacks are big companies with money and lawyers, too. Additionally, a legal landscape where hacking is not illegal when done with AI would be much more difficult or even impossible to conduct business in, so the entirety of the business world will have a stake in that legal outcome.
In an age of business consolidation and vertical integration, I think you’re going to have a split. Big businesses on the oligarch level, these hacks become cost of doing business/future conflict analogous to nation-states, while the smaller businesses are effectively cannibalized, or forced to sell to their local big business conglomerate asap before their shit is outright stolen.
One of the companies that gets hacked is eventually going to get mad and legal about it, though. A court is then going to decide who, if anyone, is liable when someone’s AI performs actions that amount to a crime. Based on their decision, either the business costs of running these types of AI models will rise dramatically, or “the AI did it” will become the ultimate “get out of jail free” card.
No I absolutely agree with you, I just don’t think they will get away with saying ‘it’s the AI’s fault’ regardless of whoever eventually gets a lawsuit against them. I just don’t. If they use that defence and it does end up working, then I’ve lost all hope in humanity
Depends on how much money they have
Thing is, the victims of the hacks are big companies with money and lawyers, too. Additionally, a legal landscape where hacking is not illegal when done with AI would be much more difficult or even impossible to conduct business in, so the entirety of the business world will have a stake in that legal outcome.
In an age of business consolidation and vertical integration, I think you’re going to have a split. Big businesses on the oligarch level, these hacks become cost of doing business/future conflict analogous to nation-states, while the smaller businesses are effectively cannibalized, or forced to sell to their local big business conglomerate asap before their shit is outright stolen.
Hmm. That argument could go either way, and I’m not sure which side I think I’d agree with