Source: Wired
Recent incidents at OpenAI and Anthropic have exposed a gap in U.S. liability frameworks: existing product liability, negligence, and corporate accountability laws were built for human-controlled systems and don't map cleanly onto autonomous agents that operate beyond their creators' real-time oversight. Courts and regulators face a concrete problem: how to assign liability when a model acts in ways neither its builders nor its users predicted or authorized. The outcome determines whether AI deployment gets chilled or victims lack recourse.