If that's too sci-fi, then consider the following examples:
* accountable human dies, has no descendants to inherit AI chain of custody
* accountable human dies, inheritors lack expertise to shut down agent
* agent is designed to earn and pay for its own hosting, and information required to shut down the hosting account is lost - therefore, agent carries on indefinitely
That person probably was made aware of risks and chose to ignore them. Today OpenAI wants to sell AI data centers to governments. If GPT 10o decides to simultaneously cripple every government, it’s not because it was so smart, it will be because we enabled it to, knowing the potential consequences.
Imagine the AI is a tree in your yard. And that it fell over on someone’s house.
Also, I imagine that if people don't inherit debts, thrusting responsibility for a rampant entity without the inheritor'a consent is unethical.
bigyabai•8mo ago