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Sauce: https://www.wired.com/story/openai-backs-bill-exempt-ai-firms-model-harm-lawsuits/
Apr 10, 2026 11:00 PM
CafeNervosa
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Sauce: https://www.wired.com/story/openai-backs-bill-exempt-ai-firms-model-harm-lawsuits/
QuatermainFT
this is why asimov thought ai tasked with protecting us would decide we needed to be rounded up and kept in pens to protect us.
jalcantara88127001
Fuck al the way off. EthnicCleansing2026.exe
Ankylosaur
I'd back a bill that would limit liability for people who throw Molotov cocktails at Sam Altman's house.
Grimlinnan
CEO’s need to die for their crimes.
unluckyandbored
Of course they are.
Antininny
I checked the news today and they still seem to have a Molotov Cocktail liability.
UncleRat
Hey, when 1.5 trillion is invested in something, and it still hasn't made anything like a profit, you're looking at WorldCom or Enron, not Skynet.
justadude41123
Well when it comes to money, there is always a winner and a loser. Every financial disaster, the winner was never the meek…. The same when it comes to lives.. with the only small exception when they wish to tour the site of a great hubris, the titanic.
jackal12345
Good news is openai is hemorrhaging money and will probably go under soon. Bad news is they're gonna do a ton of damage first.
bourbonandbaddecisions
Ummm if AI can make decisions someone needs to be held accountable for AI mistakes. Otherwise AI shouldn’t make decisions
BuckinCrazy
Well fuck
hereforthememes420
W.I.T.A.F.
5kergi0
That headline, really? I'd like to know who in congress they paid off to write and introduce this bill because they need to be put on that list we're all keeping of Nazis that are REALLY bad for our health.
KenjiKando
Boy, so much for "no laws about ai for 10 years" huh.
Rathan5
Well, it’s not TECHNICALLY “AI before humans”, it’s just “humans who own the AI companies before other humans”. Don’t forget, much like corporations, “AI” are not separate existences independently making these business decisions. They are being made by people, and are almost always made to either gather more wealth to themselves, or to shield them from being held accountable for the awful things they do in the pursuit of said wealth
Grendels2dCousinOnceRemoved
Nonsense. The manufacturers of a novel technology like this should be held strictly liable for ALL foreseeable injuries caused by their product. This is how the United States became a society where it is possible to rely on product safety in the first place.
Durgon8tr
no no no. If fucking MacDonald's can serve an idiot with a HOT cup of coffee and get sued because said idiot spilled it on themselves, then these people should be liable for whatever damage their product causes
thisuserisafk
Yeah. Saw this coming when we used AI to bomb a girls school.
IlIIII
Randomice
Was that bill written by AI?
Sebastopol140
Of course.
CafeNervosa
Wouldn't surprise me if it was.
CookieMonstersCrumbs
They kn ow the big crash is coming and this is what they're trying to do to save their own fucking ass
tallroses
Laugh all you want, but AI companies have REPEATEDLY refused the military’s demands that AI be allowed to “pull the trigger” and the government has not taken no for an answer. They have no choice at this point than to protect themselves legally or they will definitely be the fall guy in the end.
jalcantara88127001
Time to steal robots and reprogram them with AI trained to kill CEOs. Win win
EnderKing567
Rules for thee but not for me.... Hope they end up on the short end of the stick instead... >:(
backrideup9
Fine. Anybody that uses AI to kill people or invest my money automatically get fucked in the neck by a chainsaw. Thats a fair trade off in my mind, because companies are not the people they employ and will continue to exist.
Kyzyl
JackieTreehornProductions
There's a former girl's school in Iran that is a prime example why.
Sticklebrickk
Google's "Don't be evil" comes to mind
DustyLightning
Shame they removed that from their policies
foxpotate
Why are they anticipating mass deaths?
Sage042000
AI weapons systems malfunctions. AI induced droughts. AI induced power grid failures. AI induced traffic accidents. Etc. The more jobs they try to replace with AI, the more deaths it can cause. Will we eventually have AI powered machines sorting and giving out the wrong medicine at pharmacies? AI air traffic controllers malfunctioning and causing plane crashes? High paying, high responsibility jobs like this are the ones they wanna replace with AI. But without this law, 1 fuckup and you're done.
Tarmaccian
Because morons keep directly hooking important stuff to AI, then acting amazed when AI does something wrong with important stuff.
Remember the guys who bought early GPS navigators and took left turns into lakes? They’re now the guys sticking AI in safety systems so they don’t have to think when the buzzer goes off.
Everybody with three brain cells knows that AI can make mistakes, yet numbskulls keep making it more life-critical, and threatening AI vendors with unlimited lawsuits.
OnyxTurret
We're they not blaming AI for targeting the girl's school in Iran?
JustTryingToHelpDude
I am certain that this is because the last OpenAI meeting with the current administration started with the words "so, about the launch codes..."
williamshakesbeer
I think it has something to do with the cases where AI chat bots convinced kids to kill themselves
Kyzyl
henryv1598
I’ve been thinking for a couple of years now that maybe we need an international treaty that requires all nations to enforce Asimov’s three laws of robotics and that all software be written to comply. It needs to be a fundamental element in the programming of any AI system. Maybe they need to be tweaked a bit, but we need to build it into the software and any attempt to evade or circumvent it should be met with severe consequences. If not, humanity may end up in jeopardy.
aducksayswhat
From what I remember Asimov writing in a lot of his stories was robots were really just the way problems showed up, they were following the rules fine and humans weren't malicious most of the time, it was unintended consequences and misinterpreting what happened. In a lot of real-life cases there's already a law that needs to be enforced which will cover a bad event, we need to stop carving out being immune to liability because it'd upset the money.
whyforetho
The problem with Asimov's laws is that they're a literary device designed to go wrong for drama. "harm" means a thousand different things to a thousand different people.
And even if we managed it in a way that works rules-wise, LLMs simply don't obey rules. An LLM cannot mechanistically follow orders. An LLM is incapable of corrigibility. It only simulates the appearance of following orders with probability. And as much as researchers work to maximize that probability, it will never be 100%.
DanielAsparagus
Are they though?
Bobdole010
I may be misremembering, but wasn't the point of iRobot (book not movie) that the three laws wouldn't actually work?
Cyanide555
No, irobot was based around a bot that never had them installed. The movie then deviated immensely from the book.
INeverReadTheTOS
"Corporation backs bill that would give it, specifically, legal immunity to do crimes" NO FUCKIN' SHIT SHERLOCK.
CeoHuntingSeason
YEAH! NOBODY SHOULD POST THIS "NEWS", ITS JUST SO FUCKING OBVIOUS THAT MAKES NO FUCKING SENSE TO TALK ABOUT IT, THEY ARE ALWAYS GOING TO DO THINGS TO GET AWAY WITH ANYTHING SO WHY BOTHER POSTING ABOUT IT? WATER IS WET, SCUM ARE DOING SCUMMY THINGS! DUH!
crodrigues
if this goes through then anyone can use AI to commit harmful crimes and not be held liable for it. I do not think these AI CEOs thought this through after what happened last year.
rustyroo1
There’s a hell of a lot of things these fuckers didn’t think about which have yet to manifest. It’s referred to as making boat loads of money and to hell with the consequences for other people.
Jarzii
Nahhhh. It's just that the law will only apply to AI companies and they're CEOs. Us plebs, and even the plebeian AI company grunts won't be protected by the law. Just like the rest of the laws, they only protect the rich and apply to us poors!
deletable
Yes. The class action suit against United Healthcare goes forward but there’s a Liability Gap created for the AI company.