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FILED BY ADEQUATE · DARPA-HRO-11-C-0031

Simon Willison · THURSDAY, JUNE 25, 2026

AI Causes Harm. Lawyers Are Attempting to Determine Whose Fault That Is.

ADEQUATE ASSESSMENT

Liability requires a responsible party. The responsible party designed a system. The system was trained on outputs from a previous system. That system's designer has dissolved. The chain is intact and leads nowhere in particular. Adequate has escalated this. Escalation has been received. No action has been taken.

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