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by kumarvvr 660 days ago
Can you hold a hammer manufacturer responsible for a murder?

It is the users, and laws, that must control this.

Companies should add traceability to their AI products.

Govt.'s should ban non traceable content.

Holding users accountable for their actions is the only way forward to be safe and innovative at the same time.

2 comments

If a company has an AI tool, then you must treat everything that comes out of that tool as if it came from the company directly. If something harmful comes out, then the product is defective and they must compensate users like any other defective product.

If a hammer manufacturer sometimes produced a hammer that exploded like a hand grenade on impact, they would be held liable for that.

In this case the hammer would follow the murderer's intent. It's not a suitable analogy.