Principles of the Law,

Civil Liability for Artificial Intelligence

This project seeks to identify a set of principles, grounded in existing common-law tort doctrines, for assigning responsibility for harm caused by artificial intelligence systems. The project aims to help courts, regulators, and technologists understand the legal implications of AI to help guide decision-making and provide clarity for all parties.
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The Council approved the initiation of this project in October 2024. ALI members may join the Members Consultative Group.

Reporter
Mark Geistfeld New York University School of Law
New York, NY
Associate Reporter
Ketan Ramakrishnan Yale Law School
New Haven, CT
Advisers
Anna Blackburne-Rigsby District of Columbia Court of Appeals
Washington, DC
Jonathan G. Cedarbaum George Washington University Law School
Washington, DC
Che Chang OpenAI
San Francisco, CA
Bryan H. Choi The Ohio State University, Moritz College of Law
Columbus, OH
Nora Freeman Engstrom Stanford Law School
Stanford, CA
Michael D. Green Washington University School of Law
Saint Louis, MO
Peter Henderson Princeton University
Princeton, NJ
Aziz Zahirul Huq University of Chicago Law School
Chicago, IL
Carolyn B. Kuhl Superior Court of California, County of Los Angeles
Los Angeles, CA
Sabastian V. Niles Salesforce Inc.
San Francisco, CA
Marc Rotenberg Center for AI and Digital Policy
Washington, DC
Alexander Steel The Faculty of Law, University of Oxford, Wadham College
Oxford, England
Larry S. Stewart Stewart Tilghman Fox Bianchi & Cain, P.A. (Retired)
West Palm Beach, FL
Gerhard Wagner Humboldt University
Berlin, Germany
Christiane C. Wendehorst University of Vienna, Department of Civil Law
Vienna, Austria
Benjamin C. Zipursky Fordham University School of Law
New York, NY
Members Consultative Group
Steven K. Balman Shook & Johnson
Tulsa, OK
Shawn J. Bayern Florida State University College of Law
Tallahassee, FL
Steve Brody O'Melveny & Myers LLP
Washington, DC
Angela Foster Law Office of Angela Foster
North Brunswick, NJ
Curtis E.A. Karnow Superior Court of California, County of San Francisco
San Francisco, CA
Gary E. Marchant Arizona State University, Sandra Day O'Connor College of Law
Phoenix, AZ
Colleen P. Murphy Roger Williams University School of Law
Bristol, RI
Harvey S. Perlman University of Nebraska College of Law
Lincoln, NE
Timothy R. Schnabel Uniform Law Commission
Chicago, IL
Robert P. Schuster Robert P. Schuster, P.C.
Jackson, WY
Leopold Z. Sher Sher Garner Cahill Richter Klein & Hilbert, LLC
New Orleans, LA
David B. Wilson David B. Wilson Dispute Resolution LLC
Denver, CO