AI liability
Subject in Government
AI liability has come up in 1 episode across 1 podcast in TMT, including Moonshots with Peter Diamandis. 2 people have made recorded remarks about it.
What people said
Peter DiamandisHost voice used in sponsor read segments for Google for Startups and Fountain Life
Diamandis argues users are liable for harms they direct, but labs are liable when an agent causes harm without a user.
“If there's no user, if the AI from the lab is causing the harm onto itself, the lab should have never released an agent that could do that”
Moonshots with Peter Diamandis: Can We Still Build AI Safely? The White House Thinks So | MOONSHOTS #298 (Oct 2, 2026) · Listen from 2:08:10
Dave BlundinFounder and general partner of Link Ventures, co-host of Moonshots
Blundin argues that making US foundation model companies fully liable would drive users to Chinese open-weight models.
“it's going to force everybody to use chinese openweight models because if if you know u.s liability will destroy a company”
Moonshots with Peter Diamandis: Can We Still Build AI Safely? The White House Thinks So | MOONSHOTS #298 (Oct 2, 2026) · Listen from 2:01:57
Podcasts
- Moonshots with Peter Diamandis · 1 episode
Episodes
Can We Still Build AI Safely? The White House Thinks So | MOONSHOTS #298Moonshots with Peter Diamandis · Oct 2, 2026 · 2 h 25 min
Peter Diamandis and the Moonshot mates debate the White House Superintelligence Accord, AI alignment, universal high income, Anthropic's $2 trillion IPO filing, OpenAI Dev Day, Starship and AI liability.