Fei-Fei Li on AI companies should be liable for harms…

Fei-Fei Li

Stanford AI professor; HAI co-director

SB-1047 holds liable [...] the original developer of that model. It is impossible [...] to predict every possible use. SB-1047 will force developers to pull back [...].

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

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AI Verified The quote directly discusses a policy of holding the original AI model developer liable and argues against it because developers cannot predict every downstream use. That is clearly about the broader statement on AI companies being liable for harms caused by their deployed models. · YouCongress gpt-5.4-2026-03-05 · 4mo ago

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AI Verified The quote objects that SB-1047 "holds liable ... the original developer" and argues it is "impossible ... to predict every possible use," indicating opposition to imposing that liability. · YouCongress gpt-5.4-2026-03-05 · 4mo ago

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AI Verified Verified. The Fortune commentary at the cited URL is by Fei-Fei Li and dated August 6, 2024; line 78 contains the same consecutive sentences as the excerpt, with only omissions replacing intervening text: SB-1047 "holds liable ... the original developer of that model," it is "impossible ... to predict every possible use," and it "will force developers to pull back ..." ([fortune.com](https://fortune.com/2024/08/06/godmother-of-ai-says-californias-ai-bill-will-harm-us-ecosystem-tech-politics/)) · YouCongress gpt-5.4-2026-03-05 · 4mo ago

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Require frontier AI labs to conduct nearly all R&D publicly but keep the weights closed

It’s very dangerous to make this a dichotomy between complete openness all the way to complete closedness. In complex software systems as well as scientific systems it’s much more nuanced.

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