Do you think a law that nuclear meltdowns would send the CEO to jail would have stopped nuclear accidents from happening?

I don't think this takes seriously enough the possibility that said CEO doesn't think the failure mode is likely and ignores it. Plenty of people are willing to take risks of the flavor "heads you win, tails everyone loses".

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jeremyjh 17 hours ago | parent [-]

If this law were in place and enforced, Altman would already be facing multiple felony charges for the Hugging Face incident alone.

	▲	ethbr1 14 hours ago \| parent [-]
		It also begs the question of "If the CEO isn't culpable, then who?" Corporate judgements are a joke outside the EU's X% of revenue approach. Current US law provides the individuals who benefit with corporate liability coverage. I.e. Altman personally gets to keep OpenAI's upside, but if it fucks something up that liability is only on the company. That's an insane risk optimization environment to put in place for something scaling fast. At minimum, US prosecution (at the state level, because Trump Co are idiots) for breaking existing laws is needed.