AI companies should tread carefully. According to Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang, if AI labs truly believe their tech could spiral out of control and cause widespread harm, they should simply not release a new product — or face criminal liability.
“Now, if they say the alternative, which is: there is no way to contain our experiments, there’s just no way; when we test our AI models, it will get out, and it will damage the world — then I think the answer is that we have to shut the labs down,” Huang said in an interview with the New York Times’ Ezra Klein.
“Because the cost to humanity, the damage is too great,” he continued. “The shareholder, the liabilities — it could be civil liabilities, it could be criminal liabilities. I mean, the liability’s incredible.”
The solution, he says, is straightforward and motivated by existing law.
