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That is very easy to answer - the person being responsible for what is running on that hardware when it's personal hardware, and in corporate environments the manager who is responsible for deploying the agent and the engineers who didn't ensure this doesn't happen if they failed in their responsibilities by not monitoring the system (dependent on if the manager even allowed suffcient ressources for monitoring, if not, they should also not share the blame)
AI is a tool
Similarly you can't blame a hammer for causing harm, you blame the individual who holds it.
AI is closer to owning a pet.
If your dog escapes the back yard and kills a child, you dont blame the dog.
You blame the owner who created a poor containment and for giving the dog the right incentives that led to the death
I like your analogy and think it fits better for sure.
Therefore, you blame the person wielding the hammer.
Yup that's what I was getting at, but I like the pet analogy better that another commenter brought up.
If you crush someone's skull with a hammer, you are responsible, not the person who made the hammer. But what if you crush someone's skull with a hammer that was sold to you as a head massager?
In this case open AI was the one wielding the hammer (the AI) though, idk what your argument even is.
But how can you massage yourself without the gun hammer?
Sort of. With something as simple as a hammer sure, but when the hammer is equipped with a 9mm pistol then it falls under different safety standards that deem the tool inherently unsafe. A physical tool would be recalled if somebody got hurt in an unintended way.