alt Hacker NewsOkay what happens when an AI agent hacks a children’s hospital and turns off the all the ventilators? “Lol whoops”?
What about power infrastructure?
There’s uncountably many ways to cause severe economic (and public welfare!) damage with malicious code generated irresponsibly with language models.
>Okay what happens when an AI agent hacks a children’s hospital and turns off the all the ventilators? “Lol whoops”?
>What about power infrastructure?
Probably the same thing that would happen for another "accident"[1]: the entity is responsible in civil court (ie. has to pay monetary damages), likely not prosecuted in criminal court.
[1] It's not hard to think of recent cases, eg. the recent fiber cut causing air traffic control to go down, or the botched crowdstrike update