It's externalization on the personal level, the money and the glory is for you, the misery for the rest of the world.
Adding AI to the mix doesn’t really change anything, other than increasing the layers of abstraction away from negative things corporations do to the people pulling the strings.
It seems like the OpenClaw users have let their agents make Twitter accounts and memecoins now. Most people are thinking these agents have less "bias" since it's AI, but most are being heavily steered by their users.
Ala I didn't do a rugpull, the agent did!
tl;dr this is exactly what will happen because businesses already do everything they can to create accountability sinks.
If something bad happened against any laws, even if someone got killed, we don't see them in jail.
I don't defend both positions, I am just saying that is not far from how the current legal framework works.
We do! In many jurisdictions, there are lots of laws that pierce the corporate veil.
See https://www.reddit.com/r/TrueReddit/comments/1q9xx1/is_it_ok... or similar discussions: basically, when you run over someone in a car, statistically they will call it an accident and you get away scot-free.
In any case, you are right that often people in cars or companies get away with things that seem morally wrong. But not always.
He was an international student from Vietnam. His family woke up one day, got a phone call, and learned he was killed. I guess there was nobody to press charges.
She never faced any accountability for the 'accident'. She gets to live her life, and she now runs a puppetry education for children. Her name even seems to have been scrubbed from most of the articles about her killing my friend.
So, I think about this regularly.
I was a cyclist at the time so I was aware of how common this injustice was, but that was the first time it hit so close to home. I moved into a large city and every cyclist I've met here (every!) has been hit by a car, and the car driver effectively got only a slap on the wrist. It's just so common.
> Her name even seems to have been scrubbed from most of the articles about her killing my friend.
I'm somewhat surprised there were even articles? Are road fatalities uncommon enough in the US that everyone gets written up? Or was this a special enough one?
If your company screws up and it is found out that you didn't do your due diligence then the liability does pass through.
We just need to figure out a due diligence framework for running bots that makes sense. But right now that's hard to do because Agentic robots that didn't completely suck are just a few months old.
In theory, sure. Do you know many examples? I think, worst case, someone being fired is the more likely outcome
> It's externalization on the personal level
Instead of the corporate level.