Guardian: Don't panic about AI — make its creators liable for the damage it causes
nordicinst · x · 2026-10-02
Economist John Quiggin argues in the Guardian that the panic over an "AI agent" breaching Medicare is misplaced: society should hold corporations liable for AI-caused damage, as it did for the Telstra and Optus outages. Tracing how blame-shifting to "the computer" faded in the 1960s, he contends liability rules would slow the rush toward ever more powerful models.
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