Ask HN: Have you stopped underestimating AI yet? I think most technical people who are not AI researchers have a tendency to underestimate what frontier AI can do. |
Ask HN: Have you stopped underestimating AI yet? I think most technical people who are not AI researchers have a tendency to underestimate what frontier AI can do. |
Because where dangers lie is when you lose track of that one tiny important thing that turns out to really really matter.
The AI won’t get fired, you will.
You probably won't.
As far as the legal system is concerned, an employee operating an LLM is no different than an employee operating heavy construction equipment. The employer is liable for maintaining the equipment, ensuring employees are sufficiently qualified to operate the equipment, and continuously following policies and procedures to avoid harm when operating the machine. Merely instructing employees they're responsible for using the machine safely as determined by their own judgement isn't legally defensible.
That said, your employer might be stupid and fire you anyways. So if that happens, you'll should talk to a lawyer and bring your employer court for wrongful termination. It will take time, but you'll almost certainly get a very nice settlement payout. There's only downside risk for a company to be a involved with a novel legal dispute, and they'll pay handsomely to avoid it.
We can estimate from our hands-on experience and go from there, but very few people even have acess to the latest models. Some of the stuff I've read makes it sound like they're technically impressive but not all that useful in practical scenarios.