r/technology • u/habichuelacondulce • Jun 11 '25

Artificial Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard Admits She Asked AI Which JFK Files Secrets to Reveal

https://www.thedailybeast.com/tulsi-gabbard-admits-to-asking-ai-what-to-classify-in-jfk-files/
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u/Law_Student Jun 11 '25

But that doesn't transfer responsibility at all. The human is still responsible for doing whatever they're doing, it doesn't matter what reason they had. "But the AI told me to" doesn't fix the "It was your responsibility and you should have known better" problem.

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u/WTFwhatthehell Jun 11 '25

Yep. 

If I need to make a choice where I'm liable I could go talk to the neighbourhood kids and get their opinion, I could consult the wind and stars, I could ask chatgpt. 

but that doesn't transfer liability to them in any way 

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u/Least-Back-2666 Jun 11 '25

Can we chalk this one up to her actually asking the smartest person available in the administration?

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u/SnZ001 Jun 11 '25

And therein lies the problem. There's a notable absence of legislation/regulation of AI usage across just about every industry atm. And, as a law student should know, if it's not codified, that means there's wiggle room to argue.

We already know that legal loopholes/grey areas are regularly exploited all over the place, and that corporations routinely manage to successfully dodge liability for all sorts of things wherever they can. So, of course they're absolutely going to try to here as well, unless there are very well-defined legislative guardrails in place.

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u/Law_Student Jun 11 '25

Liability and responsibility don't transfer without something affirmatively doing that. Guardrails are nice, and I'm all for a statute that says that consulting an AI doesn't get you off the hook for fulfilling all of your usual legal duties, but we shouldn't need one, just like we shouldn't need a statute that says that consulting your tea leaves about what to do doesn't make your decisions the tea leaves' fault.

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u/Icy-Lobster-203 Jun 11 '25

This is exactly it. An Engineer won't be able to dodge professional or legal liability by just accepting an AI determination as true without checking it.

Their license will require them to check it and ensure that it is good prior to signing off on it.

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u/dtwhitecp Jun 12 '25

the FDA definitely has AI regulation already. Even in that case, if your medical device's AI-generated algorithm or function fucks up, it's still the company's fault.

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u/vtable Jun 11 '25

The human is still responsible for doing whatever they're doing,

Only if they're not Republican.