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by AlanYx 1163 days ago
The new EU AI Act also has this problem, in that it imposes liability for developing components that may at some future point be misused by others.

The source of the problem is a particular approach to legislation that has become popular in the EU that purports to regulate across the entire supply chain for a product. Which might make sense for production of physical items or for software developed completely from scratch 30 years ago under a waterfall model, but is strongly disconnected from the way software is currently built.