Bipartisan bill would establish AI systems as ‘products’ for liability claims

Sens. Josh Hawley (R-MO) and Richard Durbin (D-IL) have introduced legislation -- the Aligning Incentives for Leadership, Excellence, and Advancement in Development Act -- that would make it easier to win product liability claims against developers and deployers of artificial intelligence systems.

The AI LEAD Act “classifies AI systems as products and creates a federal cause of action for products liability claims to be brought when an AI system causes harm,” according to a Sept. 29 press release on ...