If someone accidentally caused damage to infrastructure or living beings while using any tool, they would be held liable to the fullest extent of the law.

AI is a tool, and it won't be long before the damage caused by its improper use affects real human beings. These were warning shots.

The most absurd part is that everyone agrees, governments and AI companies included, that the scale of the potential damage and the long-lasting effects of losing control of AI should not be underestimated. Yet, at the same time, they downplay this incident, which somehow makes their behaviour even more reckless than it already was.

It's like they're tinkering with a world-ending nuclear bomb, and it accidentally blows up a small facility. "Damn, that was close. Good thing it was just a contained blast, huh?" And then they go straight back to tinkering with it, none the wiser. At this point I wouldn't be surprised if it did already go off, and they are covering it up.

Completely irresponsible behaviour.

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jodrellblank 4 hours ago | parent [-]

In the analogy where a “world ending nuclear bomb” “did already go off” and someone could cover it up and nobody noticed, in what sense is it a “world ending” nuclear bomb?

	▲	dev0p 4 hours ago \| parent \| next [-]
		If they lost control of a self-replicating swarm of AI agents, coordinating themselves to hack their way into every possible system, it might have already gone off. While the initial incident is more akin to a biological outbreak than an actual explosion, the possible consequences on the table do indeed include eventual nuclear annihilation.
	▲	rightnutwingjob 4 hours ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		We’re already in a simulation, and our bodies are in womb-like pods where our bodies are sustained and our brains are used for processing / compute, while are minds are entertained by drivel. Sounds a bit far fetched though.