“My bill to stop AI from telling kids to kill themselves just passed out of committee UNANIMOUSLY,” Hawley wrote on X. “No amount of profit justifies the DESTRUCTION of our children. Time to bring this bill to the Senate floor.”
“PROTECT OUR CHILDREN” - the cry of people who are trying to do something incredibly bad and want to immediately shut down criticism.
If they were worried about AI telling kids to kill themselves, they could just make it illegal for AI to tell ANYONE to kill themselves. That seems like a pretty common sense law without any serious privacy implications.
Even that would be a bad law because there’s no good way to ensure such things. AI is a predictor of the most plausible next word… if that most plausible next word results in a sentence that tells someone to kill themself, it’s working as intended and it doesn’t align with my sense of morality at all that the AI provider should be legally liable for this.
Parents and schools should teach kids that AI doesn’t tell you the truth, nor give useful life advice, merely predicts what someone might plausibly answer to what you enter.
“PROTECT OUR CHILDREN” - the cry of people who are trying to do something incredibly bad and want to immediately shut down criticism.
If they were worried about AI telling kids to kill themselves, they could just make it illegal for AI to tell ANYONE to kill themselves. That seems like a pretty common sense law without any serious privacy implications.
Even that would be a bad law because there’s no good way to ensure such things. AI is a predictor of the most plausible next word… if that most plausible next word results in a sentence that tells someone to kill themself, it’s working as intended and it doesn’t align with my sense of morality at all that the AI provider should be legally liable for this.
Parents and schools should teach kids that AI doesn’t tell you the truth, nor give useful life advice, merely predicts what someone might plausibly answer to what you enter.