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

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  Cristian Trout

  Researcher on AI liability and insurance

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  votes For and says:

  Abstract: As AI systems become more autonomous and capable, experts warn of them potentially causing catastrophic losses. [...] developers of frontier AI models should be assigned [...] liability for harms [...]. Mandatory insurance [...] is recommen... more Unverified source (2024)

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  Gary Marcus

  Professor of Psychology and Neural Science

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  votes For and says:

  Yes, I agree [...] we need a new liability framework. [...] AI systems can produce harm at large scale [...]. Developing a framework for making companies responsible for harms [...] indirectly [...]. Unverified source (2023)

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  Damon T. Hewitt

  Civil rights lawyer; nonprofit leader

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  votes For and says:

  Developers [...] be liable if they aren’t. An algorithm is safe if [...] prevent [...] harm [...]. An algorithm is effective if it functions as expected [...]. Unverified source (2023)

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  Danielle Coffey

  News Media Alliance president and CEO

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  We can agree more the hypocrisy that there would be a contradiction. So, it's good to hear, then, they're saying that they're the creator of the content because they're saying that in courts over copyright right now. ``We're creating this new express... more Unverified source (2024)

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  Gleb Tsipursky

  Behavioral scientist and author

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  votes For and says:

  However, the problem with these proposals is that they require the coordination of numerous stakeholders from a wide variety of companies and government figures. Let me share a more modest proposal that’s much more in line with our existing methods o... more Unverified source (2023)

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  Future of Life Institute

  Nonprofit on existential risks

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  votes For and says:

  The Roadmap emphasizes the need to “hold AI developers and deployers accountable if their products or actions cause harm to consumers.” We agree that developers, deployers, and users should all be expected to behave responsibly in the creation, deplo... more Unverified source (2024)

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  Meetali Jain

  Tech Justice Law Project founder

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  A strong product liability law incentivizes companies to consider safety throughout the design and development process of AI products; Unverified source (2025)

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  Marc J. Pfeiffer

  Researcher on digital product liability

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  It does this by expanding negligence and product liability laws. Unverified source (2023)

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  Alix Fraser

  Issue One Vice President of Advocacy

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  votes For and says:

  liability is an essential tool for ensuring that Big Tech builds products that are safe for kids, our national security, and our democracy. Unverified source (2025)

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  Christina Montgomery

  IBM Chief Privacy & Trust Officer

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  Yes. In fact, IBM has been publicly advocating to condition liability on a reasonable care standard. Unverified source (2023)

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  Brad Smith

  Microsoft vice chair and president

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  votes For and says:

  this is our legal problem, not yours. If they use our system properly, we’re the ones who are liable, not them. Unverified source (2024)

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  Mark MacCarthy

  Tech policy scholar

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  votes For and says:

  Meta should be liable if Meta AI, its chatbot, provides advice, guidance, or recommendations that would create liability if provided by a human. Unverified source (2025)

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  Rohit Chopra

  CFPB Director; U.S. consumer regulator

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  votes For and says:

  Specifically, advertising and marketing that uses sophisticated analytic techniques, depending on how these practices are designed and implemented, could subject firms to legal liability. Unverified source (2023)

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  David Evan Harris

  UC Berkeley public scholar, tech policy advisor

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  Hold developers of AI systems legally liable for harms caused by their systems, including harms to individuals and harms to society. Unverified source (2023)

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  Margrethe Vestager

  EU Commission executive vice-president

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  votes For and says:

  This should make it easier for consumers to claim compensation for damages caused by such systems. Unverified source (2022)

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  Rob Eleveld

  Transparency Coalition CEO

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  To think that product liability protections for US consumers should not apply to AI products [...] is absurd. Of course those laws apply to AI products. Unverified source (2025)

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  Ursula Pachl

  BEUC deputy director general

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  votes For and says:

  It is essential that liability rules catch up with the fact we are increasingly surrounded by digital and AI-driven products and services like home assistants or insurance policies based on personalised pricing. Unverified source (2022)

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  Gabriel Weil

  Law professor, AI governance

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  votes For and says:

  Thankfully, just such a policy is available: Make AI companies pay for the harm they cause. Unverified source (2024)

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  Dick Durbin

  U.S. Senator; Senate Democratic Whip

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  The AI LEAD Act would establish a federal cause of action against AI companies for harms caused by their systems. Unverified source (2025)

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  Didier Reynders

  European Commissioner for Justice (2019–2024)

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  votes For and says:

  Current liability rules are not equipped to handle claims for damage caused by AI-enabled products and services, Unverified source (2022)

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  Scott Wiener

  California state senator

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  votes For and says:

  If you develop a model *today* [...] and that model causes harm of any scale, someone can try to sue you [...] potentially recover damages. Unverified source (2024)

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  John Villasenor

  UCLA professor; Brookings senior fellow

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  votes For and says:

  If it turns out that [...] renders the product harmful, the company needs to bear responsibility for that as well. Unverified source (2019)

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  Sam Altman

  CEO at OpenAI

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  votes For and says:

  However, if liability frameworks are too lax, negative externalities may appear where a company benefits from lack of oversight and regulation at the expense [...] Unverified source (2023)

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  Josh Hawley

  U.S. Senator for Missouri

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  votes For and says:

  When these new technologies harm innocent people, the companies must be held accountable. Unverified source (2023)

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  Richard Blumenthal

  U.S. Senator from Connecticut

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  votes For and says:

  and ensuring that AI companies be held liable when their products breach privacy, violate civil rights, endanger the public, [...] Unverified source (2023)

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  Woodrow Hartzog

  Law professor, Boston University

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  and it's no substitute for meaningful liability when AI systems harm the public. Unverified source (2023)

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  Fei-Fei Li

  Stanford AI professor; HAI co-director

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  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 [...]. Unverified source (2024)

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  Matt Schruers

  Tech policy advocate; CCIA president

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  votes Against and says:

  This [...] legislation could [...] subjecting [...] to lawsuits [...]. The bill is overly broad [...] subject to litigation. [...] could subject online services to costly [...] lawsuits. Unverified source (2023)

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  Jeff Jarvis

  Journalism professor and media commentator

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  votes Against and says:

  I can go to the machine, and I can have it write a horrible poem, as the Senator said, about anyone that's bad. Is that my fault, or is that the machine's fault? I think that the question becomes-- you're going to find newspapers and TV stations that... more Unverified source (2024)

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  Cynthia Lummis

  U.S. Senator from Wyoming

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  votes Against and says:

  Wyoming values both innovation and accountability; the RISE Act creates predictable standards that encourage safer AI development while preserving professional autonomy. This legislation doesn’t create blanket immunity for AI – in fact, it requires ... more Unverified source (2025)

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  Tyler Cowen

  Professor of Economics, George Mason University & author of Average is Over

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  placing full liability on AI providers for all their different kinds of output, and the consequences of those outputs, would probably bankrupt them. Unverified source (2024)

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  Jack Solowey

  Cato Institute policy analyst

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  Making AI providers liable for securities violations generally would produce inferior incentives. [...] Neither doctrine suggests universal AI provider liability for resulting harm is appropriate. Unverified source (2024)

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  Anjney Midha

  a16z general partner

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  votes Against and says:

  The idea of imposing civil and criminal liability on model developers when downstream users do something bad is so misguided and such a dangerous precedent. Unverified source (2024)

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  Yann LeCun

  Computer scientist, AI researcher

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  votes Against and says:

  Making technology developers liable for bad uses of products built from their technology will simply stop technology development, Unverified source (2024)

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  Ari Cohn

  Free Speech Counsel, TechFreedom

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  But exposing the tool makers or providers to liability for intentional bad acts that others set out to do is a cure worse than the disease. Unverified source (2023)

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