The Real AI Threats: Automated Hacking And Surveillance, Conventional Weapons Development, Biological Misuse

Should we rely on a few dominant companies to police everyone’s use of AI to spot and block the bad actors? As AI becomes embedded in everyday life, that effectively means constant surveillance of everyone by those companies. What about the legal frameworks for handling these abuses? Who should bear the liability when threat actors succeed in circumventing the built-in safeguards and cause real-life harm? And how would increasingly capable open weight/open source systems that exist outside the control of any company fit into new legal and liability frameworks? It’s going to be an interesting few years finding out — assuming we have that long…

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