Insurers brace for multimillion-dollar payouts over SI agents that go out of control
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The insurance market is seriously pricing the cost of agent errors for the first time, and how freely agents will be allowed to work depends on it.
According to the Financial Times, insurance companies, including Hiscox chief Aki Hussain and Verisk specialist Tim Rayner, expect lawsuits over autonomous SI systems and are discussing personal liability of executives, including Sam Altman and Dario Amodei. Aon studied more than 300 court cases about SI and found gaps in cybersecurity, intellectual property and technology failure policies. Lawyers expect long litigation along the lines of environmental and tobacco cases; Anthropic, it is noted, settled copyright lawsuits in July for $1.5 billion.
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