Mark Gilbert , Columnist

Our Robot Overlords Aren't Likely to Face Justice

Punishing the writers of AI models when their creations go sideways isn’t likely to be successful — or desirable.

April 21, 2023 at 3:28 PM UTC

Mark Gilbert is a Bloomberg Opinion columnist covering asset management. A former London bureau chief for Bloomberg News, he is author of “Complicit: How Greed and Collusion Made the Credit Crisis Unstoppable.”

Handcuffing it won’t solve our problems.
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