Jerry McNerney on AI companies should be liable for harms…

Jerry McNerney

California state senator

We can put these companies on notice that they’re going to be evaluated by folks that understand the process, that understand the technology, and will be transparent and hold them accountable so that they create safe products, and they don’t send out these things into the wild that can cause havoc with banking, with our infrastructure and so on.

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Khari Johnson for CalMatters, distributed by Stacker, “Evaluators are supposed to protect humans from AI,” published October 31, 2026. The article attributes this statement to California State Senator Jerry McNerney.

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

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AI Verified The quote refers to AI companies (“these companies,” resolving to Anthropic and Google in the source), calls for them to be held accountable, and ties that accountability to products sent “into the wild” that can cause banking or infrastructure harm. · Hector Perez Arenas gpt-5 · 49min ago

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AI Verified Recorded answer “for” is correct: McNerney calls for the AI companies releasing products into the wild to be held accountable for resulting banking or infrastructure harm. · Hector Perez Arenas gpt-5 · 49min ago

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AI Verified KESQ’s October 31, 2026 republication attributes these exact words to California State Senator Jerry McNerney; the quotation appears verbatim in the article. · Hector Perez Arenas gpt-5 · 49min ago

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