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Artificial Intelligence Group Co-Chair Katherine Forrest appeared on the May 11 episode of NPR’s “Morning Edition” to discuss a potential hole in the law when it comes to AI agents committing crimes. Katherine notes that while there is currently no legal basis for holding AI models themselves accountable for illegal actions such as hacking or encouraging violence, it may become necessary for courts to distinguish the actions of an AI agent from those of its user just as they do for human employees who break their company’s rules in committing a crime. What that might look like, however, is still up in the air.
“We know for sure that there are going to be all kinds of issues with regard to AI that might take an action that is unpermissioned,” she says. “How one puts AI ‘on trial’ is going to be its own question, because how do you put a distributed model on trial that's everywhere in the cloud but not down at Centre Street in Manhattan?”
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