Treasury chief says AI bosses, not their bots, will carry the can for criminal acts
“The Hugging Face incident is the responsibility of the OpenAI management, not a bunch of agents." He also referenced current and former OpenAI and Anthropic employees’ dire warnings about AI eradicating humanity by the end of the decade. Meanwhile, the model makers' proposed framework to slow AI development omits strict legal liability for damages caused by rogue systems. REG AD googletag.cmd.push(function() { googletag.display('labrador/thereg/article/desktop/b'); }); “A sitting employee came out, said there's a 10 percent chance of an extinction-level event,” Bessent said.
- ▪“The Hugging Face incident is the responsibility of the OpenAI management, not a bunch of agents." He also referenced current and former OpenAI and Anthropic employees’ dire warnings about AI eradicating humanity by the end of the decade.
- ▪Meanwhile, the model makers' proposed framework to slow AI development omits strict legal liability for damages caused by rogue systems.
- ▪REG AD googletag.cmd.push(function() { googletag.display('labrador/thereg/article/desktop/b'); }); “A sitting employee came out, said there's a 10 percent chance of an extinction-level event,” Bessent said.
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