Law professor: tort law incentivizes AI firms to stay ignorant, urgent regulation needed
tszzl · x · 2026-09-07
Quote-tweeting legal scholar ketanrama's argument: existing law such as tort liability creates incentives for AI companies to dig their heads in the sand — not investigating their own incidents can mean less legal exposure. This is why new regulation is urgently needed to empower third parties outside this incentive structure to investigate potential incidents, decide on public disclosure, and generate empirical evidence through experiments like model organisms.\n\ntszzl adds this is especially true for incidents that remain contained in the digital world.
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