Open Source AI Summit: align to individuals; operators bear agent liability

At the Open Source AI Summit SF, Illia Polosukhin argued alignment should target individual users rather than humanity, PyTorch CTO Matt White said legal liability for agent failures belongs to operators, and Peter Norvig recalled initially rating the Transformer paper as just "kind of okay."

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