Lawyer Richard Stevens writes another splendidly clear article on AI and lawsuits. As I’ve noted before, it’s not mysterious. AI is a tool. When a tool is designed to cause damage or death, the MAKER of the tool is responsible. AI is designed to cause libel and damage and death. It’s advertised as a game-like assistant to make your life easier, and a way to cheat.
The media buzz about ‘sentient AI’, and the peculiar lawsuits to establish AI as a corporate ‘person’, are clearly designed to REMOVE the liability from its maker in public opinion.
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Makers typically can professionally test the efficacy and safety of their products; the users cannot. The makers have the information to give buyers and users warnings. And the makers can obtain insurance to compensate buyers and users who suffer injuries through no fault of their own. These factors make it reasonable to hold the makers responsible for injuries their products cause to users, without making the user prove the maker did something specifically wrong.
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This raises the same old question I’ve been asking since 2008.
WHERE ARE THE GODDAMN INSURERS?
In sane times, insurance companies rigorously controlled corporations to PREVENT activities that were sure to cause lawsuits.
I guess this falls into the same category as traditions. We allowed bureaucracies to take over all regulation. Insurers and trade groups and professional groups lost their purpose and stopped trying to apply economic feedback.
In every single fucking case, the government has flipped its purpose from protection to devastation, without surrendering its moral claims. See 2020.
When insurers had clear authority and a clear profit motive, they didn’t flip.
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Henry VIII responded to the problem by founding Trinity House, a mutual benefit association or guild for sailors, and giving it full authority over lighthouses and navigation. Trinity House still exists and still has the same functions. Remarkable continuity for an organization, breaking all of Parkinson’s Laws. Serving the same purpose for 500 years, funded the same way for 500 years. Every ship that docks at British ports pays a user fee to Trinity House.
Is there any way for a modern monarch to create an equivalent Mutual Benefit Association for real science? I strongly doubt it. Henry was just as evil and crazy as modern kings, but he was motivated by loss of tax revenue. Modern Sorosian monarchs don’t need taxes, so they don’t need a country or an economy. They run solely on counterfeit numbers generated by central banks.
King Henry of Ford and King Henry of England both operated in a closed circle. Henry of Ford realized that he had to pay his workers enough to buy one of the cars they were building. He wanted MORE PROFIT, and the only way to make more profit is to sell things to workers who are making things. Henry of England realized that he needed uncrashed ships to carry the products that England made, or to import products and crops that England couldn’t make. If the ships crashed, the economy would crash and his income would crash. Now the circle is broken. Corporations and governments depend solely on counterfeit numbers.
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Now QT is reactivating the profit/motivation loop in some areas of business. The loop will be much harder to restore in areas where demonic governments have stolen and flipped all morality.
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