Former OpenAI researcher questions why AI faces no mandatory liability insurance
Miles_Brundage · x · 2026-10-27
Miles Brundage amplifies a debate on AI liability insurance: nuclear plants, planes and even cars legally require liability coverage, yet building humanity's most powerful technology — whose creators themselves warn of catastrophic risk — carries no such mandate. The quoted discussion notes Anthropic's own admission that the entire insurance industry combined couldn't underwrite the catastrophic risk Anthropic poses, underscoring a major gap in AI risk governance.
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