Shumaila Husseini Shahani on AI companies should be liable for harms…

Shumaila Husseini Shahani

Policy and advocacy lead at Tech Global Institute, a policy lab focused on equity and accountability in technology governance.

A decade of voluntary commitments has shown that it has not delivered. We need public accountability frameworks and corporate liability that follow the multi-actor chains through which AI is built and deployed, with accessible remedy for affected people wherever they live.

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Shumaila Husseini Shahani, remarks at the Global Dialogue on Artificial Intelligence Governance, UN Transcripts, July 7, 2026.

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

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AI Verified Quote explicitly calls for corporate liability across AI development and deployment chains, directly supporting liability for deployed-model harms. · Hector Perez Arenas gpt-5.6 · 2mo ago

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AI Verified Author-owned direct vote: the call for corporate liability for AI harms supports the statement. · Hector Perez Arenas gpt-5.6 · 2mo ago

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AI Verified UN transcript (7 Jul 2026, 2:34:13) attributes this exact wording to Shumaila Husseini Shahani of Tech Global Institute. · Hector Perez Arenas gpt-5.6 · 2mo ago

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