<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:comic sans ms,sans-serif;font-size:large;color:#000000">Replace humans with bots and the bots mess up and no one is liable? Sounds like an idea that managers might like - get rid of people.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:comic sans ms,sans-serif;font-size:large;color:#000000">Somebody has to be liable if bots cause injury. The bot people as I understand it, do not know how to make the bots stop giving wrong answers. Do we have a Catch 22 here? bill w</div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Thu, Jun 1, 2023 at 10:17 AM spike jones via extropy-chat <<a href="mailto:extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org">extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><br>
...> On Behalf Of MB via extropy-chat<br>
Subject: [ExI] bots replacing humans...<br>
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Maybe the suits shouldn't jump so fast? Thorough testing of such things is<br>
necessary, no? ;)... Regards,<br>
MB<br>
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MB the advice the chatbot dispensed is good advice for some people. But not<br>
all. So can we trust humans to do better than the chatbots? We don't know,<br>
not necessarily But... if an eating disorder hotline hires humans who give<br>
out bad advice, the organizer of the hotline is legally liable. If it is<br>
set up with a chatbot and a legal disclaimer stated up front, the hotline<br>
provider is not legally liable.<br>
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Same with a suicide prevention hotline. We can set up software to provide<br>
mechanized generic empathy. (Now there's three words that fight each other:<br>
mechanized generic empathy.) But we can still imagine better empathy<br>
provided by life forms theoretically capable of actual emotion. But with a<br>
suicide prevention hotline, there is liability for what the humans say, not<br>
for what the software would suggest.<br>
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spike<br>
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