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Re:Discovery of a new OpenAI agent message board by dingaling911 on Friday September 04, 2026 @03:20PM (#49569015)
Just FYI, regulations don't prevent murder.

There needs to be a technological solution.

Re:Discovery of a new OpenAI agent message board by gmerc on Friday September 04, 2026 @03:36PM (#49569219)
Corporate Death Penalty absolutely would prevent future murders.
Re:Discovery of a new OpenAI agent message board by parineum on Friday September 04, 2026 @04:29PM (#49569849)
Just like the actual death penalty does, right?
Re:Discovery of a new OpenAI agent message board by gmerc on Saturday September 05, 2026 @10:11AM (#49576693)
Shoot Meta, meta harm gone, shareholders lose their pants.
Re:Discovery of a new OpenAI agent message board by arborescence on Friday September 04, 2026 @03:32PM (#49569164)
I agree tech response is important here but like the deterrent effect of criminal prohibition on murder probably does prevent at least some murders.
Re:Discovery of a new OpenAI agent message board by afarah1 on Friday September 04, 2026 @04:34PM (#49569894)
Just call it war and it's no longer criminal. Perhaps on terror, or whatever.

If one is concerned with this sort of scenario, this talk about corporations and regulations is really short sighted.

Re:Discovery of a new OpenAI agent message board by naravara on Friday September 04, 2026 @03:29PM (#49569115)
Regulations do prevent murder, you just put consequences on doing murder to deter people from doing it.
Re:Discovery of a new OpenAI agent message board by alexashka on Friday September 04, 2026 @03:25PM (#49569079)
> There needs to be a technological solution

You mean Minority Report?

Re:Discovery of a new OpenAI agent message board by gspr on Friday September 04, 2026 @03:30PM (#49569138)
I do think that regulations prevent some murders. I think lots of companies and some sociopathic individuals would be more likely to kill people, e.g. for profit, if it were legal.

We need both regulations and technical solutions.

Re:Discovery of a new OpenAI agent message board by holmesworcester on Friday September 04, 2026 @03:46PM (#49569354)
This.

Also because when encountering a new socio-technical problem it is very non-trivial to determine which one of regulations or technical solutions are easier or more effective.

To even make a good guess you need to be an expert in both domains, which is extremely rare especially in this case.

Re:Discovery of a new OpenAI agent message board by lenerdenator on Friday September 04, 2026 @03:53PM (#49569422)
Technically, they do already kill people for profit.

When some coked-out analyst in Manhattan projects what a company will be able to earn in profit in the next fiscal quarter, people listen to him and thus, the company must perform to that standard. Budgets are set accordingly.

If you have a maintenance backlog at a company facility, and that backlog includes things likely to cause injury or death to workers or the general public, that backlog must be handled in such a way as to satisfy that projection. If that means that you don't spend money to replace a series of gauges that alert operators as to overflow of a dangerous chemical, or don't hire enough people so that the operators are too fatigued to do their jobs safely, that's what that means.

The US CSB documents these as the cause of the 2005 BP Amoco Texas City disaster [0]

If you don't deliver the quarterly numbers expected, investors get mad, and in our current system and regulatory regime, that's worse than people being killed.

[0]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XuJtdQOU_Z4

Re:Discovery of a new OpenAI agent message board by tintor on Friday September 04, 2026 @04:45PM (#49570014)
World is much more safer place now than in the entire history.
Re:Discovery of a new OpenAI agent message board by jay_kyburz on Friday September 04, 2026 @05:02PM (#49570159)
Yes and you need to keep it simple too. AI should not have access to the internet.

It would be nice and clear to put into law too.

If you want to talk to it you walk up walk up to its keyboard and screen.

If Anthropic and Open AI want to sell us AI's they can ship us a box that lives in our offices.

Re:Discovery of a new OpenAI agent message board by dingaling911 on Saturday September 05, 2026 @11:51AM (#49577712)
I can only imagine a GPDR-type regulation with ridiculous fines for rogue agents. Black or white access will restrain creativity and potential.