> impossibly vague for a piece of legislation - "reasonable care" and "unreasonable risk" sound like things that could be endlessly litigated.
Nope, that's entirely standard legal stuff. Tort law deals exactly with those kinds of things, for instance. Yes it can certainly wind up in litigation, but the entire point is that if there's a gray area, a company should make sure it's operating entirely within the OK area -- or know it's taking a legal gamble if it tries to push the envelope.
But it's generally pretty easy to stay in the clear if you establish common-sense processes around these things, with a clear paper trail and decisions approved by lawyers.
Now the legislation can be bad for lots of other reasons, but "reasonable care" and "unreasonable risk" are not problematic.
> but "reasonable care" and "unreasonable risk" are not problematic.
Still strongly disagree, at least when it comes to AI legislation. Yes, I fully realize that there are "reasonableness" standards in lots of places of US jurisprudence, but when it comes to AI, given how new the tech is and how, perhaps more than any other recent technology, it is largely a "black box", meaning we don't really know how it works and we aren't really sure what its capabilities will ultimately be, I don't think anybody really knows what "reasonableness" means in this context.
Exactly. It's about as meaningful as passing a law making it illegal to be a criminal. Right, so what does that actually mean apart from "we'll decide when it happens"?
Nope, that's entirely standard legal stuff. Tort law deals exactly with those kinds of things, for instance. Yes it can certainly wind up in litigation, but the entire point is that if there's a gray area, a company should make sure it's operating entirely within the OK area -- or know it's taking a legal gamble if it tries to push the envelope.
But it's generally pretty easy to stay in the clear if you establish common-sense processes around these things, with a clear paper trail and decisions approved by lawyers.
Now the legislation can be bad for lots of other reasons, but "reasonable care" and "unreasonable risk" are not problematic.