Erie Meyer on AI companies should be liable for harms…

Erie Meyer

Senior Fellow at Columbia Law School's Center for Law and the Economy and former Chief Technologist at the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau.

One person taking action is Florida Attorney General, Republican James Uthmeier, who has opened a criminal investigation into OpenAI and Sam Altman, and filed a lawsuit using a product liability approach. More states should follow his lead, and they shouldn’t stop at ChatGPT.

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Erie Meyer, “It’s Time to Hold AI Companies Liable,” The Capitol Forum, June 13, 2026.

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AI companies should be liable for harms caused by their deployed models

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