AI and the climate crisis pose existential risks. The law offers a way to reduce them | Robert Reich
Liability lawsuits have held tobacco, oil and pharma companies to account in the past.
AI investors won’t ignore this threat The most basic function of government is to protect people from harm.
Two growing phenomena – the climate crisis and AI – pose escalating risks of extraordinary harm.
The climate crisis is already causing floods, wildfires, drought and record heat.
AI agents are already escaping super-secure environments to hack into systems they’re supposed to avoid.
Robert Reich, a former US secretary of labor, is a professor of public policy emeritus at the University of California, Berkeley.
He is a Guardian US columnist and his newsletter is at robertreich.substack.com .
His new book, Coming Up Short: A Memoir of My America, is out now in the US and in the UK Continue reading...
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