Draft AI bill would impose strict liability for catastrophic harms and require pre-notice
StephenLCasper · x · 2026-07-24
Stephen Casper highlights a proposed rule for strict liability in catastrophic harms and critical safety incidents.
In the thread, he asks what people think about a series of draft provisions, including:
- strict liability for catastrophic harms and critical safety incidents,
- advance notice to the Commerce Department for internal or external deployments or high-risk evaluations of new or substantially modified frontier models,
- public redacted versions of contracts between large developers and independent verification organizations,
- rules to mitigate conflicts of interest in those verification organizations.
He notes that the last item appears to be missing from a three-page summary, though it may simply have been omitted for brevity.
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