I think there is some under-explored issue in the liability, but I don’t know enough about business law to have a useful opinion on it. It seems interesting, though.
Even if an LLM and a human were equally competent, the LLM is not a living being and, I guess, isn’t capable of being liable for anything. You can’t sue it or fire it.
Doctors have to carry insurance to handle their liability. I can see why it would be hard to replace a doctor with an LLM as a result.
Typically engineers aren’t personally liable for their mistakes in a corporate setting. (I mean, there’s the whole licensed Professional Engineer distinction, but I don’t feel like dying on that hill at the moment). So where does the liability “go?” I think it just gets eaten by the company somehow. They might fire the engineer, but that doesn’t make the victim whole or benefit society, right?
Ultimately we’d expect companies that are so bad at engineering to get sued so often that they implement process improvements. That could be wrapped around AI’s instead of people, right? But we’re not using the humans’ unique ability to bear liability, I think?
Even if an LLM and a human were equally competent, the LLM is not a living being and, I guess, isn’t capable of being liable for anything. You can’t sue it or fire it.
Doctors have to carry insurance to handle their liability. I can see why it would be hard to replace a doctor with an LLM as a result.
Typically engineers aren’t personally liable for their mistakes in a corporate setting. (I mean, there’s the whole licensed Professional Engineer distinction, but I don’t feel like dying on that hill at the moment). So where does the liability “go?” I think it just gets eaten by the company somehow. They might fire the engineer, but that doesn’t make the victim whole or benefit society, right?
Ultimately we’d expect companies that are so bad at engineering to get sued so often that they implement process improvements. That could be wrapped around AI’s instead of people, right? But we’re not using the humans’ unique ability to bear liability, I think?