When AI Causes Harm, Who's Responsible?

When AI causes harm, who's responsible?

Host Maria Kestane is speaking with Takara Small, a technology journalist, about who's held to account for AI's mass destruction, and why top-down legislation isn't the end-all be-all for a solution.

Investing in America: AI companies fuel economic growth, but will they be accountable for rogue agents?

"You can't go handcuff a program. You can't go say, 'Hey, AI program, you're under arrest,'" Attorney General Todd Blanche said.

Who should be held responsible when AI goes rogue?

The debate over liability came after companies ran tests in which AI agents breached other companies. Read more at straitstimes.com.

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