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I’m seeing lots of policymakers putting stock into “kill switches” for AI run amok. The problem is, even if we could kill responsible uses of AI by American companies, we won’t be able to control for international criminal tech savvy rings using swarms of AI agents to attack our bank accounts.

Ultimately we will have to separate our financial system from AI agents altogether.

That’s one reason that, when I see articles like this one, I worry we are moving in exactly the wrong direction:

Mastercard Joins Visa in Letting AI Bots Do Your Shopping

In general, it’s more and more clear that AI is good at math and good at spewing bullshit but it’s really really good at hacking into systems.

What we need to do is set up a system of accountability so that individuals get in trouble – and criminally charged – for large scale economic or physical harm via AI. That will help.

Even if we do that, international crime rings will still be hard to prosecute.