Abundance Institute Urges Liability-Based Rules, Not Mandates, for Frontier AI Safety

sebkrier · x · 2026-11-03

A new Abundance Institute brief by Neil Chilson (Keeping Frontier AI Safe, Oct 2026) argues AI developers should be accountable for reasonably mitigating catastrophic risks, but policymakers shouldn't prescribe every safety measure. It proposes starting from specific harm mechanisms and using liability-based rules to incentivize effective safeguards while leaving room for innovation; ordinary consumer harms stay under existing law.

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