tort-law

AI companies may assume they are immune from civil liability, but existing tort laws could still hold them accountable if their models cause harm.

A tweet by Gabriel Weil expresses support for political attention to catastrophic AI risk and suggests tort law as a mitigation tool, offering to brief lawmakers on legal fixes.

This paper proposes an interaction-based framework for allocating tort liability when agentic AI systems cause harm, drawing on Bratman's planning theory and common law concerted action doctrines to map human-AI interaction types onto existing liability rules.