The new issue for @stanfordlawmag is out! This issue highlights artificial intelligence and the law with SLS faculty featured who have been engaged in critical research.
Earlier this year, in Belgium, a young father of two ended his life after a conversation with an AI-powered chatbot. He had, apparently, been talking to the large language model regularly and had become emotionally dependent on it. When the system encouraged him to commit suicide, he did. “Without these conversations with the chatbot,” his widow told a Brussels newspaper, “my husband would still be here.”
A devastating tragedy, but one that experts predict could become a lot more common.
As the use of generative AI expands, so does the capacity of large language models to cause serious harm. Mark Lemley (BA ’88), the William H. Neukom Professor of Law, worries about a future in which AI provides advice on committing acts of terrorism, recipes for poisons or explosives, or disinformation that can ruin reputations or incite violence.
The question is who, if anybody, will be held accountable for these harms?
“We don’t have case law yet,” Lemley says. “The company that runs the AI is not doing anything deliberate. They don’t necessarily know what the AI is going to say in response to any given prompt.” So, who’s liable? “The correct answer, right now, might be nobody. And that’s something we will probably want to change.”
Read more https://law.stanford.edu/stanford-lawyer/articles/artificial-intelligence-and-the-law/
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