• fubarx@lemmy.ml
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    3 months ago

    This topic came up when self-driving was first coming up. If a car runs over someone, who is to blame?

    • Person in driver seat
    • Dealer
    • Car manufacturer
    • Supplier who provided the driving control system
    • The people who designed the algorithm and did the ML training
    • People who wrote and tested the code
    • Insurer

    Most of these would likely be indemnified by all kinds of legal and contractual agreements, but the matter would still stand that someone died.

    • RubberDuck@lemmy.world
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      3 months ago

      Throughout the entire chain based on value/value add. Not to the consumer.

      So if a car manufacturer adds a shitty 3rd party self-driving to their car. And the license etc is 100 euro per car and the car 10k and sold by the dealer for 20k…

      • 100/20k for the 3rd party
      • 10k/20k for the manufacturer
      • 10k/20k for the dealer

      Hhmm how would this work for private re-sale… Still the dealer imho.

    • HauntedCupcake@lemmy.world
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      3 months ago

      An insurer is an interesting one for sure. They’d have the stats of how many times that AI model makes mistakes and be able to charge accordingly. They’d also have the funds and evidence to go after big corps if their AI was faulty.

      They seem like a good starting point, until negligence elsewhere can be proven.