Doom, Meet Duty: AI’s Warnings Come With Legal Baggage
Predicting the end of humanity is one way to get a headline. For artificial intelligence (AI) developers, it may also be one way to hand a future plaintiff evidence.
Developers have become some of the loudest voices warning about their own systems. Predictions that AI could drive humanity to extinction—once widely dismissed as absurd—now make front-page news.
Those warnings raise an awkward question for tort law, which governs civil liability for harms: If developers publicly acknowledge their systems’ risks, could those statements help establish the standard of…
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