Washington bets on old liability laws to police AI as experts split on what comes next
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Calls for new AI safeguards are growing louder, but the Trump administration, the industry and policy experts disagree on how to respond Worries about artificial intelligence causing catastrophic harm are no longer confined to science fiction and late-night podcasts. Calls for new safeguards are multiplying, Bloomberg reports, but the people who would design those rules cannot agree on what they should look like. On October 10, 2026, President Donald Trump’s preferred approach came into focus. Rather than create a new federal regulatory regime built specifically for AI, the administration favors enforcing existing liability laws to manage the technology’s risks.
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