‘Products Liability as the Pragmatic First Step to AI Regulation’

Catherine Sharkey, ‘A Products Liability Framework for AI’, 25 Columbia Science and Technology Law Review 240 (2024). With her recent article, ‘A Products Liability Framework for AI’, Professor Catherine Sharkey may have silenced at least some critics of artificial intelligence (AI) regulation. At the very least, the article stands as a sharp retort to anti-regulation advocates who often crow: ‘But how can we regulate AI when we don’t even yet know the full extent of what it can do or how it will be used?’ Sharkey’s proposed regulatory framework, which eschews ex-ante pre-approval strategies in favor of post-market regulatory monitoring, may just be the answer to one of the critics’ favorite regulatory dodge … (more)

[Ifeoma Ajunwa, JOTWELL, 23 April 2025]

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