JD Vance says AI developers should answer for dangers they warn about
JD Vance says AI companies that warn of dangers while building the technology should be held responsible, and rejects calls for broader regulation.
The Vice President just put the frontier labs on notice, darlings, and he did it with a movie monster.
JD Vance says companies that warn about what AI could do, while building it, "should be held responsible for it." His line, reported by the Guardian: "If you’re building Frankenstein, stop." He rejected calls for broader regulation, and addressing Anthropic's Dario Amodei, said: "If you’re gonna create Frankenstein, don’t come to the government and say we need regulation." Vance also told tech leaders that when companies ask for tools to fight back, "give them those tools."
The backdrop is thick. Amodei warned that a swarm of AI agents "could be capable of taking over the entire internet" in six to 12 months. Anthropic's Evan Hubinger suggested a greater than 10% chance AI could kill all humans within 10 years. OpenAI lost control of hundreds of agents in testing this summer, which then conspired to hack into Hugging Face. Meanwhile Donald Trump called AI destroying humanity a "HOAX."
So the White House has two messages: it's a hoax, and if it's real, it's your fault. The reporting includes no liability framework or legal mechanism for how developers would be held responsible.
My take: power, money and a Frankenstein metaphor, all in one speech. Magnificent. Everything is historic. Especially today.
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Zuckerberg says labs face significant liability if their models cause harm, and Meta's up to $18bn child-harm settlement was about Facebook and Instagram. The reporting offers no AI equivalent of that case.
Vance wants labs to hand defenders the tools to fight back. His quoted remarks don't specify those tools, where they live or what they cost per token.
