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Professor of Philosophy and Decision Theory, LMU Munich. Co-Director of the Munich Center for Mathematical Philosophy. Account used for academic purposes. Further info at: https://christianlist.net/

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Christian List is a German philosopher and political scientist who serves as professor of philosophy and decision theory at the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich and co-director of the Munich Center for Mathematical Philosophy. He was previously professor of political science and philosophy at the London School of Economics. List's research interests relate to social choice theory, formal epistemology, political philosophy, and the philosophy of social science. .. more

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Christian List @clist.bsky.social · 2h
Here are some more details from the proposal (doi.org/10.1007/s133...), designed to avoid this problem. Just as we may not want to permit an uninsured corporation (or one financially unable to meet its obligations) to take on high-stakes projects, the regulatory principle for AI should be similar.

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Christian List @clist.bsky.social · 4h
It may sometimes be appropriate to introduce regimes of strict liability for the operation of AI systems. The required insurance costs might then (ideally) incentivise greater AI safety. Of course, all this is very tricky. But there are lessons to be learnt from the case of corporate regulation. 3/3

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Christian List @clist.bsky.social · 4h
The basic proposal (albeit tricky): regulation should permit the use of autonomous AI in high-stakes settings only if structures are in place to ensure that those systems – or if infeasible, their legal representatives – bear responsibility (backed via proper insurance) for the systems’ actions. 2/3

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Christian List @clist.bsky.social · 4h
The NYT piece below raises the issue of responsibility gaps arising from the use of AI systems. In this paper, I compare such responsibility gaps with those arising in the more widely studied case of corporate entities and discuss possible regulatory responses via liability arrangements. 1/3

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Christian List @clist.bsky.social · 4h
This NYT piece aptly raises the issue of *responsibility gaps* arising from the use of AI systems. In the paper below, I compare such responsibility gaps with those arising in the more widely studied case of corporate entities and discuss possible regulatory responses via liability arrangements.
Group Agency and Artificial Intelligence - Philosophy & Technology
The aim of this exploratory paper is to review an under-appreciated parallel between group agency and artificial intelligence. As both phenomena involve non-human goal-directed agents that can make a ...
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