The way ahead on AI liability issues

Will the developing EU liability framework for regulating AI prove sufficient?

 
Ugo Pagallo, Professor of Jurisprudence at the University of Turin and member of the EU’s Expert Group on liability and new technologies, has written a new post on our blog examining the European Commission’s recent proposals on AI liability.

Articulating the AI liability problem, he writes: ‘AI challenges traditional notions that are key to establishing who is responsible and for what service, such as foreseeability (the capacity to anticipate what a product will do or a service will offer) or negligence (failing to fulfil duties of care, which in the case of AI services may be hard to identify).

‘More fundamentally however, AI affects pillars of legal causation (what really has caused harm?) and standards of legal protection (how do we ensure protection from it?).’

For more information about the AI Liability Directive, including an explanation of under-compensation for accidents, three policy options designed to avoid it, and an analysis of AI liability beyond traditional accident scenarios, see our expert explainer, AI liability in Europe: anticipating the EU AI Liability Directive.

 Πηγή: adalovelaceinstitute.org