Is there any precedent for this? My hunch is that it's impossible in the US at least but who knows?
There needs to be a technological solution.
If one is concerned with this sort of scenario, this talk about corporations and regulations is really short sighted.
It would be nice and clear to put into law too.
If you want to talk to it you walk up walk up to its keyboard and screen.
If Anthropic and Open AI want to sell us AI's they can ship us a box that lives in our offices.
You mean Minority Report?
We need both regulations and technical solutions.
Also because when encountering a new socio-technical problem it is very non-trivial to determine which one of regulations or technical solutions are easier or more effective.
To even make a good guess you need to be an expert in both domains, which is extremely rare especially in this case.
When some coked-out analyst in Manhattan projects what a company will be able to earn in profit in the next fiscal quarter, people listen to him and thus, the company must perform to that standard. Budgets are set accordingly.
If you have a maintenance backlog at a company facility, and that backlog includes things likely to cause injury or death to workers or the general public, that backlog must be handled in such a way as to satisfy that projection. If that means that you don't spend money to replace a series of gauges that alert operators as to overflow of a dangerous chemical, or don't hire enough people so that the operators are too fatigued to do their jobs safely, that's what that means.
The US CSB documents these as the cause of the 2005 BP Amoco Texas City disaster [0]
If you don't deliver the quarterly numbers expected, investors get mad, and in our current system and regulatory regime, that's worse than people being killed.
If this administration actually becomes convinced that some imminent training run is likely to kill everyone, why wouldn't they act?
The key is winning the debate that ASI is species-cide by default.
We have to win it either way, because the 2028 US elections have little or nothing to do with what Xi does.
(It's clear now that they can do plenty of harm before they are made public.)
But it's a proof point that regulation is possible, even over the objections of the companies.
What news have you seen that made it seem less like a retaliation?
this is the only way to deter such activity. corporate fines are not enough. the charges are negligence, conspiracy and complicity.