Ordinary liability won't pause AI: trillion-dollar labs are effectively judgment-proof
deanwball · x · 2026-09-14
- Counters the idea that legal liability alone would pause AI: damages from incidents like the RubyGems or Hugging Face breaches are a tiny fraction of a trillion-dollar company's weekly revenue.
- Deeper issue is market failure: true catastrophe damages could be many multiples of these companies' worth, making them effectively judgment-proof, with incentives badly misaligned.
- Insurance requirements could help at the margins but not uninsurable catastrophic risks; the author cites Gabriel Weil's published work on this.
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