But how much vetting is required? It's not like the AI labs have zero vetting. For instance, uber also has non-zero amount of vetting (standard background checks), but also there's also plenty of areas they could vet harder. If it turned out they hired a rapist and one of their passengers got sexually assaulted, is it uber's fault for not vetting hard enough? I'm sure there's always some marginal steps can they do to vet even harder, like doing a polygraph or whatever.
>If an employee does something wrong, the company is liable, unless you can show that the employee was sophisticated enough to take independent action.
They're pretty straightforwardly liable in civil court, but not criminally as you imply. In the above example, uber can't be prosecuted for rape just because one of its drivers raped a passenger.