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Let's revive (and potentially revise) products liability.

Lindsay Beyerstein@beyerstein.bsky.social

Rewrite every headline about an AI doing something illegal as the owners of the AI doing something illegal. Strict liability could end this madness.

26/10/26, 3:41 pm3 reposts20 likes

Seizon valavaiau

@valavaiau.bsky.social

15h

Could we test any proposal against a practical question: can the person harmed identify who is responsible and actually reach a remedy? A right that takes years of handovers, contracts and disclaimers to use leaves a lot of people behind.

Cathy Gellis

@cathygellis.bsky.social

Eeek.... I mean, maybe. But that's a ridiculously potent weapon a lot of people are tempted to deploy really carelessly.

Jeffrey Vagle

@jvagle.me

I think the "must protect innovation at all costs" argument from tech companies has worn a bit thin as of late.

Cathy Gellis

@cathygellis.bsky.social

I'm not saying that. I'm saying "must protect speech." That's where the carelessness is showing up, not differentiating the speech function of products from non.

Jeffrey Vagle

@jvagle.me

Perhaps, but speech arguments have also proven to be potent bad faith weapons by some of these same tech companies, and we're often left with whose injuries matter more and who is better equipped to protect their own interests in this game?

Michael S. Kirkpatrick

@kirkpams.bsky.social

23h

That would certainly dim the glow of Anthropic’s glowing pre-IPO numbers.