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I have blamed The agents That hacked Your website And which You probably Reasonably thought I controlled Forgive me I am rich And unaccustomed To taking responsibility

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If you parse carefully the End of Times License Agreement, you'll see that the corporation (named The Corporation, hereafter) disclaims all responsibility for anything and everything.

This, and this some more, but let me confess this to everyone and still give me loads of money to build data centres to do it some more. Is this correct?

Agreed, but once upon a time there was a felony conviction: bsky.app/profile/john...

John Mashey@johnmashey.bsky.social

From computing history, blaming “rogue” AI’s is B.S. Robert Morris Jr unleashed a worm program that caused more trouble than intended, but far less dangerous than current AI’s. *He* (not worm) was convicted of felony. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morris_... I used to see him at Bell Labs w/ his father.

1/ I go way back. Ex: bsky.app/profile/john... Ken's supply-chain hack was in 1975, a few of my colleagues noticed something wrong, & I logged onto ken's machine & he hadn't hidden the code. A week or so or later I was in MH Research terminal room & he was talking about it with Robert Morris Sr.

John Mashey@johnmashey.bsky.social

Evergreen classic on software supply chain attacks, Ken Thompson (UNIX) 1984 Turing Award lecture, Reflections in Trusting Trust: www.cs.cmu.edu/~rdriley/487...

2/ Ken said: think we could put this over on the NSA (National Security Agency, which had UNIX)? Bob, Sr (who consulted for NSA) said: ~better not, the NSA has no sense of humor. By 1988, he was NSA Chief Scientist ... and Jr called home. This was awkward.

David Robson@davidotley.bsky.social

We should reject the use of the words ‘rogue’ and ‘autonomous’ in connection with AI breaches. All AI has been designed by human designers, and will do what its design enables it to do. Bad design may have been involved (!) but blame rests on the AI companies. www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

The funny thing about these socially repellent CEO weirdos, is that they are so oblivious to human nature. Someone will get the blame for damages/mishaps and your lines of code won't be an acceptable scapegoat. The court is still a human court asshats.

To me it’s incomprehensible, but I think it’s because I’m constantly mixing social responsibility with legal, and CEOs representing themselves instead of the company. I can’t think like that.

So is AI. If you’re US Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth and you need cover for double tapping a girl’s elementary school near a military base in Iran. And you don’t have the guts, integrity or courage to admit your true goals and intentions.

The technology to create autonomous weapons is all over, and it can't be uninvented. We must set the rule that the person who switches on a machine designed to kill people is responsible for its killings, the same way a person who pulls a trigger is responsible for what their bullet does.

Disagree with the whole concept of “autonomous weapons”. Especially as a get out of responsibility or trouble excuse. Somebody gathered the resources to conceive of, build and run a weapon. It’s a tool, like a screwdriver. The ability to act without direct supervision doesn’t negate liability.