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A comparison between legal and cybersecurity crises

A post calls a legal situation “the law equivalent of the cybersecurity crisis” and predicts that both crises will leave software more secure and contracts more legally sound.

Joshua AchiamJA
David PfauDP
Will ManidisWM
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The writer compares an unspecified legal situation with the cybersecurity crisis and expects both to lead to improvements: more secure software and more legally sound contracts.

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Jason Crawford@jasoncrawfordThis is the law equivalent of the cybersecurity crisis I think in both cases, we will come out of the crisis much stronger. Our software will be much more secure, and our contracts will be much more legally sound.12d
Joshua Achiam@jachiam0Society depends on mild inconveniences as stabilizers, in the same way your car uses shock absorbers to make the road feel less bumpy. One of the big reasons we don't constantly descend into lawsuits, recriminations, and exploitation of loopholes is that it's expensive in time, attention, and dollars to do so. But AI agents will make it so that all of those mild inconveniences get taken away, nearly all at once. Many of society's shock absorbers could vanish overnight. Even the best case scenario where this is largely beneficial to all of the users is extremely bumpy for society as a whole.12d
David Pfau@pfauI think we've already been seeing some version of this since January 20, 2025. A huge number of the, shall we say, *creative* legal arguments being made by the Trump White House are clearly young staffers telling ChatGPT "make me an argument that this is legal".12d
Nabeel S. Qureshi@nabeelquSocial stability -- cybersecurity, law, government -- has historically depended on slack. Think of slack as the gap between what's possible in principle and what actually gets done. Sources of slack include: 1) Effort: some things are too tedious or costly for anyone to bother with. Security through obscurity is the classic example. 2) Institutional capacity: the organizations responsible for doing them are too slow or dysfunctional to follow through. 3) Headcount: not enough people to do them at scale. Much of AI's disruption to the social order, including cyberrisk/biorisk but also including trivial things like restaurant reservations, can be modeled as the disappearance of slack.11d
Will Manidis@WillManidisin the primordial religions, the gods were very powerful but decidedly very fickle. you could live a very normal life until you aggrieved one of them and it all came crashing down. the post-llm future will feel like this: lawsuits, endless lawfare and inquists, all become easy11d
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    Jason Crawford@jasoncrawfordThis is the law equivalent of the cybersecurity crisis I think in both cases, we will come out of the crisis much stronger. Our software will be much more secure, and our contracts will be much more legally sound.12d
    Joshua Achiam@jachiam0Society depends on mild inconveniences as stabilizers, in the same way your car uses shock absorbers to make the road feel less bumpy. One of the big reasons we don't constantly descend into lawsuits, recriminations, and exploitation of loopholes is that it's expensive in time, attention, and dollars to do so. But AI agents will make it so that all of those mild inconveniences get taken away, nearly all at once. Many of society's shock absorbers could vanish overnight. Even the best case scenario where this is largely beneficial to all of the users is extremely bumpy for society as a whole.12d
    David Pfau@pfauI think we've already been seeing some version of this since January 20, 2025. A huge number of the, shall we say, *creative* legal arguments being made by the Trump White House are clearly young staffers telling ChatGPT "make me an argument that this is legal".12d
    Nabeel S. Qureshi@nabeelquSocial stability -- cybersecurity, law, government -- has historically depended on slack. Think of slack as the gap between what's possible in principle and what actually gets done. Sources of slack include: 1) Effort: some things are too tedious or costly for anyone to bother with. Security through obscurity is the classic example. 2) Institutional capacity: the organizations responsible for doing them are too slow or dysfunctional to follow through. 3) Headcount: not enough people to do them at scale. Much of AI's disruption to the social order, including cyberrisk/biorisk but also including trivial things like restaurant reservations, can be modeled as the disappearance of slack.11d
    Will Manidis@WillManidisin the primordial religions, the gods were very powerful but decidedly very fickle. you could live a very normal life until you aggrieved one of them and it all came crashing down. the post-llm future will feel like this: lawsuits, endless lawfare and inquists, all become easy11d
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