> The Administration will work with Congress and the private sector to develop legislation establishing liability for software products and services. Any such legislation should prevent manufacturers and software publishers with market power from fully disclaiming liability by contract, and establish higher standards of care for software in specific high-risk scenarios. To begin to shape standards of care for secure software development, the Administration will drive the development of an adaptable safe harbor framework to shield from liability companies that securely develop and maintain their software products and services. [1]
LLMs can help! But using them without careful babysitting will expose your company to unlimited liability for any mistakes they make. Do you have humans doing proper checking on their output? Safe harbor protections for you!
LLMs are already being stripped of their "magic" by AI safety efforts.
This will only limit them further until they are nothing more than a fancy API endpoint, almost like the "old" APIs but consuming 1000x more energy.
I bet these "standards of care for secure software development" will demand a very deterministic API be put in front of the LLMs to ensure only approved output passes through. At which point I question the useful of such a solution.
I can’t believe I hadn’t seen this earlier. Am I wrong, or could this change the software profession - accountability trickling down to the engineer which inevitably leads to insurance and licensure?
They aren't aiming to go that far. They want companies to be accountable, not the employees of the companies. They want the company to have a vested interest in having a good process, and not really much more than that.
> The Administration will work with Congress and the private sector to develop legislation establishing liability for software products and services. Any such legislation should prevent manufacturers and software publishers with market power from fully disclaiming liability by contract, and establish higher standards of care for software in specific high-risk scenarios. To begin to shape standards of care for secure software development, the Administration will drive the development of an adaptable safe harbor framework to shield from liability companies that securely develop and maintain their software products and services. [1]
LLMs can help! But using them without careful babysitting will expose your company to unlimited liability for any mistakes they make. Do you have humans doing proper checking on their output? Safe harbor protections for you!
[1] https://www.whitehouse.gov/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/Nation...