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I am not too bothered by it, but I do prefer to use monospaced fonts only for code or command line instructions.

That is interesting, I hadn’t seen that before. Although it doesn’t surprise me to learn it. It looks like it is mostly targeting...

A different question is, do they even need a defense? The DOJ has an entire task force dedicated to anti anti-AI litigation. Judging by...

If “they are nurtured like children” isn’t even a defense for actual parents of actual children, how much of a defense could it be for...

The Crumbley parents were held guilty of involuntary manslaughter after their son killed four students in a school shooting. The son...

I think you have a very narrow view of history. When the Roman Empire collapsed, that was effectively the end of western civilization...

Indeed. People (at least in the US) don't sell their children. The AI autonomy argument would go to the first element of liability: it...

An example, no judge blames a non-defective knife for a murder, obviously. (Strictly speaking, the knife kills you, but the knife isn't...

The standard is “but for” causation, meaning that the defective product was a necessary condition for the harm to have occurred. It need...

Indeed, all sorts of other technologies are also dangerous. That is what the respective juries decide. I don’t think any of these cases...

These court cases against OpenAI show harm, defect, and causation...

The legal standard, the standard by which products are judged and regulated, has three elements: 1) it must be a product. For...

What is a while: a week, a month, a year? I posted that the current release rate of frontier AIs is one every 10 days. In July alone...

AI is a tool that can be used for good and bad. Just last week, a rogue AI agent from OpenAI (which is more like ClosedAI, as most of...

Another orthodox way to make use of BH for travel. You happen to find a BH moving to your destination. You hitchhike and get off at...