Strict liability is gaining traction as a solution to force AI companies to institute better safety controls. But it has some big downsides too
Source: Fortune ·
Strict liability might not work, could curtail open source AI development, and might even push AI companies to move into their customers' turf.
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Hello and welcome to Eye on AI. In this edition: Anthropic’s “rogue AI” agent filled in visa applications, filed murder tip Strict liability for AI companies gains traction Anthropic says small models might soon be able to self-replicate Controversy swirls over fired OpenAI researchers. Jev goes viral, but OpenAI is hot on its heels. Character.ai files for bankruptcy. Anthropic bans being cruel to Claude. Sobering numbers about real-world model ‘misalignment.’ Meta’s Zuckerberg and Wang odd Muse Wonder use cases. There were more worrying “rogue AI” incidents reported last week. Anthropic revealed that one its internal AI agents (which, intriguingly, it described as a “non-frontier research agent”) had attempted to fill out various State Department visa application forms and had also submitted a false tip related to an unsolved murder case to the Philadelphia police. In neither case did the AI agent’s efforts result in much: the agent failed to fill in all the fields in the visa…