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‘The biggest AI companies are racking up potential legal liabilities running into the tens—if not hundreds—of billions of dollars, outpacing the limits on coverage, according to AI and insurance industry insiders.’ www.wsj.com/tech/ai/ai-r...

wsj.comAI Runs Into Its Next Big Obstacle: InsuranceSafety incidents risk exposing AI developers to multibillion-dollar liabilities, with other businesses vulnerable for using the tech.

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We need to watch this carefully lest the Tech oligarchs obtain some statutory limitation of civil liability in the guise of "regulation." It was just such a limitation of liability that made nuclear power "viable" decades ago.

Cover is priced from a loss record: what went wrong, how often, at what cost, across enough independent exposures that the numbers settle. AI barely has one, and a million deployments of one model can fail like a single exposure. The limits stop where the evidence does.