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AI & Law: Accomplice Liability and AI Exceptionalism

Lance Eliot
6 min readMar 16, 2022

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Exploring the legal puzzle of accomplice liability and AI

by Dr. Lance B. Eliot

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Key briefing points about this article:

  • Companies are churning out AI systems at an astonishing rate
  • Many do so with an AI For Good mantra, believing in AI exceptionalism
  • The harsh reality is that there is also AI For Bad
  • Attorneys should be ready for clients that are caught in the accomplice liability ranks
  • One key legal argument entails the question of substantial unoffending purpose

Introduction

Do you have any clients that are producing AI-based systems?

Even if you don’t yet have such clients, you might very well find yourself having such a client in the future.

You need to be ready for a potentially acute legal vulnerability that they are ostensibly unknowingly facing.

I say this because it seems like everyone is eager to get onto the AI bandwagon and they are doing so without considering the…

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Lance Eliot
Lance Eliot

Written by Lance Eliot

Dr. Lance B. Eliot is a renowned global expert on AI, successful startup founder, global CIO/CTO, , was a top exec at a major Venture Capital (VC) firm.