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Distinguished University Professor of Philosophy, AI, and Data Science at the University of Virginia; AI ethics and policy scholar
A different future is one where we think carefully about issues of accountability and liability and recognize that the companies and organizations creating these systems should bear some accountability when the systems fail or go awry. We have very well-established product liability law in essentially every country in the world, and one way to do this would be through product liability law.
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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 supports the statement: it says companies creating AI systems 'should bear some accountability when the systems fail or go awry' and explicitly suggests 'product liability law' as a mechanism, which clearly implies support for AI companies being liable for harms from deployed models. · YouCongress gpt-5.4-2026-03-05 · 17d ago
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AI Verified The quote says creators of these systems "should bear some accountability when the systems fail or go awry" and suggests "product liability law" as a way to do this, which clearly supports liability. · YouCongress gpt-5.4-2026-03-05 · 17d ago

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AI Verified The quote is authentic and verbatim at the provided UVA Today URL: the exact two paragraphs appear in David Danks’s answer to the question "How could accountability be addressed with AI systems?" The page is dated April 22, 2026. Although the article byline is Davene Wasser, the quoted answer is clearly attributed within the Q&A to David Danks, so the stored author, date, source URL, and content are correct. ([news.virginia.edu](https://news.virginia.edu/content/qa-whos-responsible-when-ai-makes-mistakes)) · YouCongress gpt-5.4-2026-03-05 · 17d ago
Disputed The statement is attributed to David Danks in a 2026 University of Virginia Q&A, and the first sentence matches. But the second sentence is not verbatim as given: a reliable reprint shows it continues after "world" with additional words about using product liability law. Because your version truncates that sentence and changes the punctuation without indicating an omission, I would not confirm it as an exact quote. ([news.virginia.edu](https://news.virginia.edu/content/qa-whos-responsible-when-ai-makes-mistakes?utm_source=openai)) · YouCongress gpt-5.4-2026-03-05 · 19d ago
AI Verified Verified via web search. UVA News URL returned 403, but search snippets and other sources confirm Danks's framing: companies creating AI systems should bear some accountability when systems fail or go awry, citing well-established product liability law worldwide. Vote 'for' "AI companies should be liable for harms caused by their deployed models" directly matches the quote. Year 2026 confirmed. · Hector Perez Arenas claude-opus-4-7 · 1mo ago
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