And how many of them are using Chinese open source models under the hood at their law firms? More than you might think.
Rule of law doesn't quite have the same ring to it does it in the U.S. While you've been bullying neighboring countries like Canada and threatening other various free Nations while belittling Europe.
I defer to Devansh on this, but not as many. I’ve met quite a few F500 companies with self-hosted (on prem or cloud) infrastructure with Chinese models (because there are no other open weight alternatives). I haven’t really seen this in law though.
I can speculate about why: not as tech savvy and don’t have as capable internal IT teams, they trust hosted software more with big names behind it, etc. There are also open questions still what is discoverable/privileged or not. LexisNexus queries of a certain length are discoverable, for example. Are entire queries to Claude as well?
In terms of bullying etc on Trump’s part, not really going to disagree with it. Other than rhetoric, making a mess in the Middle East and taking his ball and going home isn’t really a good look.
Thank you for the essay. If enacted, such immunity would inevitably increase moral hazard and lead to further problems.
It's most evidently silly when considering activities downstream from the frontier model companies: people and organizations that offer products or services causing harm should be liable regardless of the root cause! For example, nobody would tolerate immunity for them if the cause was determined to be their usage of generative AI nor voodoo.
Shielding parties from responsibility is plainly irresponsible and unacceptable.
In healthcare, liability means people could actually die. If you recall, I wrote a piece called "Doctors Go to Jail. Engineers Don't." In all 50 states, doctors remain liable for AI's mistakes. Think about that.
time for America's "lawyerly society", as Dan Wang called it, to assert itself over the engineers at the AI labs
Hilarious but true! 😂
And how many of them are using Chinese open source models under the hood at their law firms? More than you might think.
Rule of law doesn't quite have the same ring to it does it in the U.S. While you've been bullying neighboring countries like Canada and threatening other various free Nations while belittling Europe.
I defer to Devansh on this, but not as many. I’ve met quite a few F500 companies with self-hosted (on prem or cloud) infrastructure with Chinese models (because there are no other open weight alternatives). I haven’t really seen this in law though.
I can speculate about why: not as tech savvy and don’t have as capable internal IT teams, they trust hosted software more with big names behind it, etc. There are also open questions still what is discoverable/privileged or not. LexisNexus queries of a certain length are discoverable, for example. Are entire queries to Claude as well?
In terms of bullying etc on Trump’s part, not really going to disagree with it. Other than rhetoric, making a mess in the Middle East and taking his ball and going home isn’t really a good look.
Thank you for the essay. If enacted, such immunity would inevitably increase moral hazard and lead to further problems.
It's most evidently silly when considering activities downstream from the frontier model companies: people and organizations that offer products or services causing harm should be liable regardless of the root cause! For example, nobody would tolerate immunity for them if the cause was determined to be their usage of generative AI nor voodoo.
Shielding parties from responsibility is plainly irresponsible and unacceptable.
In healthcare, liability means people could actually die. If you recall, I wrote a piece called "Doctors Go to Jail. Engineers Don't." In all 50 states, doctors remain liable for AI's mistakes. Think about that.
Great work, as always, James!