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Re:Frontier AI agents violate ethical constraints 30–50% of ... by nradov on Tuesday February 10, 2026 @10:32AM (#46961081)
Look to history. Here's a list of "Fortune 7" companies from about 50 years ago.

IBM

AT&T

Exxon

General Motors

General Electric

Eastman Kodak

Sears, Roebuck & Co.

Some of them died. Others are still around but no longer in the top 7. Why is that? Eventually every high-growth company misses a disruptive innovation or makes a key strategic error.

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Re:Frontier AI agents violate ethical constraints 30–50% of ... by skeptic_ai on Tuesday February 10, 2026 @02:28PM (#46965476)
What I meant is they can kill people and still survive. So how much bad things they need to do to be shut down?

Kill 100 people? 100000? So seems as long as the lawsuit is less than what they can afford they will survive. Which is crazy.

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Re:Frontier AI agents violate ethical constraints 30–50% of ... by s1artibartfast on Tuesday February 10, 2026 @11:57PM (#46971024)
yes. As long as they are more valuable to people than the lives cost, they will stick around. Part of this is a pragmatic utilitarianism the world run on.

How many people can a doctor kill and still survive? Nobody expects perfection because they like having doctors.

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