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Crime is still crime when an AI is involved — the perps are the humans

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AI companies are sharing more news of their cutting-edge software behaving badly: potentially tens of thousands of safety incidents, some perhaps including criminal violations — which, if so, can be handled like any other crime, holding the humans behind the tools responsible.

However much the drama queens in tech, media and politics pretend otherwise, “rogue agents” are such only because programmers enable and even encourage it.

These tools aren’t uncontrollable, sentient creatures: The folks behind them are the decision-makers, to blame for whatever harm their products do.

For example, we now know that OpenAI actually disabled multiple “guardrails” in the testing that led to the much-reported Hugging Face incident, among other parameter-setting that opened the door to an AI “swarm” doing a better........

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