AI and Liability

According to Simon Willison's blog, Bruce Schneier has weighed in on a German court ruling that holds Google liable for errors in its AI Overviews. Schneier argues that companies should be responsible for their AI agents just as they would be for human employees. Allowing businesses to hide behind 'faulty AI' creates dangerous incentives—why hire humans for writing, law, or medicine if AI is cheaper and bears no consequences for mistakes?

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