Jane Bambauer, ‘Negligent AI Speech: Some Thoughts about Duty’, 3 Journal of Free Speech Law 344 (2023); Nina Brown, ‘Bots Behaving Badly: A Products Liability Approach to Chatbot-Generated Defamation’, 3 Journal of Free Speech Law 389 (2023). How should we think about liability when AI systems generate illegal speech? The Journal of Free Speech Law, a peer-edited journal, ran a topical 2023 symposium on ‘Artificial Intelligence and Speech’ that is a must-read. This JOT addresses two symposium pieces that take particularly interesting and interlocking approaches to the question of liability for AI-generated content: Jane Bambauer’s ‘Negligent AI Speech: Some Thoughts about Duty’, and Nina Brown’s ‘Bots Behaving Badly: A Products Liability Approach to Chatbot-Generated Defamation’. These articles evidence how the law constructs technology: the diverse tools in the legal sensemaking toolkit that are important to pull out every time somebody shouts ‘disruption!’ … (more)
[Margot Kaminski, JOTWELL, 6 February]
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