AI and Liability
Evolving story · 1 updatesAI Liability and Legal AccountabilityTimeline →Bruce Schneier argues that companies deploying AI agents should be legally liable for their outputs, citing a German court ruling against Google for errors in AI-generated summaries.
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Bruce Schneier on the recent <a href="https://the-decoder.com/landmark-german-ruling-declares-googles-ai-overviews-are-googles-own-words-and-makes-it-liable-for-false-answers/">German ruling</a> that Google be held liable for errors introduced in their AI overviews:</p>
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<p>AI agents are agents of the person or organization that deploys them—and should be treated by the law as such. If a company hired human writers to write its summaries, that company wo
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