Professor Mehtab Khan was interviewed by WFMJ Channel 21 News in Youngstown, Ohio, in a story titled “When A.I. goes rogue, who’s responsible?” Professor Khan addressed a series of questions about liability for harm caused by A.I. agents.

Professor Khan emphasized that A.I. products, like all consumer products, are already covered by a range of consumer, labor, cybersecurity, and antitrust laws. She explained that A.I. companies can potentially be held liable for problems with the “product design.”

Professor Khan identified two main concerns of legal scholars with emerging A.I. technologies. First, in the short term, she explained that “we need to apply existing obligations, as far as cybersecurity, privacy, consumder protection, and labor protections.” Second, she identified the longer-run risk that “we would place too much power in the hands of companies to self-regulate.”