AI and Liability

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AI and Liability Bruce Schneier and Nathan Sanders on the recent German ruling that Google be held liable for errors introduced in their AI overviews: 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 would be liable for inaccuracies in those summaries. [...] To allow businesses to hide behind the excuse of faulty AI in those same circumstances would be a massive han

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