Crossposted from the AI Alignment Forum. May contain more technical jargon than usual.This is a linkpost for https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/s/nYJ26tgc2JkFQRG2w

Gabriel Weil (Assistant Professor of Law, Touro University Law Center) wrote this post series on the role of Liability Law for reducing Existential Risk from AI. I think this may well be of interest to some people here, so wanted for a linkpost to exist.

The first post argues that Tort Law Can Play an Important Role in Mitigating AI Risk.

The second post addressed directly How Technical AI Safety Researchers Can Help Implement Punitive Damages to Mitigate Catastrophic AI Risk

Here is the full paper.

TLDR (from the first post)

Legal liability could substantially mitigate AI risk, but current law falls short in two key ways: (1) it requires provable negligence, and (2) it greatly limits the availability of punitive damages. Applying strict liability (a form of liability that [...]

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First published:
February 29th, 2024

Source:
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/X8NhKh2g2ECPrm5eo/post-series-on-liability-law-for-reducing-existential-risk

Linkpost URL:
https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/s/nYJ26tgc2JkFQRG2w

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