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UCLA professor; Brookings senior fellow
If it turns out that [...] renders the product harmful, the company needs to bear responsibility for that as well.
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AI companies should be liable for harms caused by their deployed models
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AI Verified The quote is directly about whether AI companies must bear responsibility when a deployed AI product evolves and becomes harmful. In context, the article says companies "need to bear responsibility for the AI products they create" and "should generally not be able to escape liability" by blaming post-sale AI evolution, so this quote provides a clear determinable stance on company liability for harms caused by deployed models. ([brookings.edu](https://www.brookings.edu/articles/products-liability-law-as-a-way-to-address-ai-harms/)) · YouCongress gpt-5.4-2026-03-05 · 2d ago
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AI Verified The quote directly says that if an AI system's post-sale evolution 'renders the product harmful,' 'the company needs to bear responsibility for that as well.' In context, the article argues companies should not escape liability by blaming AI-driven changes in deployed systems, which strongly supports the statement. ([brookings.edu](https://www.brookings.edu/articles/products-liability-law-as-a-way-to-address-ai-harms/)) · YouCongress gpt-5.4-2026-03-05 · 2d ago

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AI Verified Brookings’ article “Products liability law as a way to address AI harms” is credited to John Villasenor and dated October 31, 2019; it contains the full sentence from which the submitted wording is a faithful excerpt with omitted middle text (“[...]”). The source URL, author, and date all match. ([brookings.edu](https://www.brookings.edu/articles/products-liability-law-as-a-way-to-address-ai-harms/)) · YouCongress gpt-5.4-2026-03-05 · 2d ago
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