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Liability driven safety

Courts plus insurance markets produce better risk allocation than agencies, by pricing uncertainty and adapting to new technologies through precedent.

Mechanism

Hold developers and deployers civilly liable for AI harms; let insurance price risk and let tort precedent shape behaviour.

Historical analogue

Climate · Climate litigation

Every strategy inherits a plausible ceiling from its precedent. The analogue conditions the realistic reach.

Produced

Attribution cases establishing duty of care.

Did not produce

Did not drive emissions reductions at scale.

People on the record

3

Profiled figures appear first, with their tier in small caps. Each face links to the person and their full quote record. Tag: liability-driven.

  • Gabriel Weil

    Touro Law professor; AI liability scholar

  • Margot Kaminski

    University of Colorado law professor

  • Rebecca Crootof

    University of Richmond law professor

Coordinates

Primary leverInstitutional capacity (Build)
Acts onmarket economic
Coercionstate coercion
Actor in controlhumans
Time horizonhorizon neutral
Legitimacy sourcestate

Conflicts, grouped by mechanism

0

No strict conflicts catalogued. This strategy pulls a lever that nothing else pulls in the opposite direction.

Complements, grouped by mechanism

5

Same-lever reinforce

same lever, same pull, different mechanism

Both strategies pull the same lever in the same direction by different means. They stack: doing both amplifies the pull, at the cost of double-counting in portfolio audits.

Governance firstInsurance mandateCriminal liability

Shared authority

same legitimacy source

Different levers, same legitimacy source (democratic, state, technical, market). The pair hangs together under one kind of authority; it stands or falls with that authority.

Whistleblower primacy

Cross-side bridge

one AI-side, one world-side

One acts on the model, the other on institutions or culture. The bridge hedges against both artefact-level and substrate-level failure.

Red line capability

Same-lever twins

6

Both use the same lever in the same direction. Usually redundant inside a portfolio: each dollar or effort unit only buys one lever pull, even if two strategies are named.

Academic firewallingtwinAI worker collective actiontwinArms control treatytwinInternational AI agencytwinRegulated utilitytwinScientific accumulationtwin

Axis position

What the strategy acts onMarket / economic
Coercion levelState coercion
Actor in controlHumans as principals
Time horizonHorizon-neutral
Legitimacy sourceState

Source note: Liability driven safety strategy.md