Neil Chilson Counters Tyler Cowen: No Legal Immunity for AI Labs That Pass Audits
neil_chilson · x · 2026-09-09
Responding to Tyler Cowen's proposal for an industry-led FINRA-style regulator with audit immunity, Neil Chilson argues immunity trades away common law's advantages for uncertain risk reduction. Surveying responses from Brendan McCord, Judge Glock, and Gabriel Weil, he proposes a "fourth, even less bad way": Congress imposes a duty to mitigate catastrophic risk on frontier labs while preserving common-law accountability—no FDA-style gatekeeping, no blanket immunity.
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