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Trump’s AI Liability Push Opens Blame Game for Models Gone Rogue

Bloomberg Technology Saturday 10 October 2026, 14:19 UTC By Maggie Eastland 1 min read
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Trump’s AI Liability Push Opens Blame Game for Models Gone Rogue The Trump administration’s embrace of legal liability to enforce artificial intelligence safety sets the stage for future conflicts over who foots the bill when AI models go rogue: the companies that design the systems or the people that deploy the technology. Holding AI developers financially responsible for the safety of their products has won support from Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent and former White House AI czar David...

Trump’s AI Liability Push Opens Blame Game for Models Gone Rogue The Trump administration’s embrace of legal liability to enforce artificial intelligence safety sets the stage for future conflicts over who foots the bill when AI models go rogue: the companies that design the systems or the people that deploy the technology. Holding AI developers financially responsible for the safety of their products has won support from Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent and former White House AI czar David Sacks, who argue that existing liability laws would be more effective than new rules. President Donald Trump, in spurning new AI safeguards, has taken it a step further, saying the Justice Department should intervene if models get out of hand.
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