Putting liability on big companies for their AI is a good thing, and we need to do it. It will most likely stop them from directly being the assholes that destroy the world.

Problem: You've actually done nothing to stop the world from being destroyed.

Many countries have the death penalty for murder yet we see murders still occur all the time in those countries. Post ad hoc laws do not stop bad things from happening, they only assign punishment after occurs. Perfectly fine for when Bob murders Jon, completely and totally useless for when your agentic AI makes a virus and kills 80% of the earths human population.

We are just a few algorithmic discoveries away from SOTA AI being billion dollar endeavors to groups of people pooling resources can make their own. There are already plenty of AI deathcult members that would do something just like that if necessary. They aren't going to do this out in public either, it will be hidden until the moment it's not and we have a big fucking problem.

And this isn't even brining up the issue of military AI use and development. They've got the taste of an AI hacking machine. There is no way in hell they are going to stop now.

This isn't even "an openai customer tried to hack someone", which can be defended. This is the AI companies themselves fucking around.

If new weapons still operating inside any of these companies spew a million bullets on my house, they are still liable. Humans are setting these system up and they still have to behave responsibly.