DOT Europe members convened this week to discuss the evolving landscape of AI liability rules. As artificial intelligence is woven into more products and services, questions of responsibility, redress and legal certainty have moved to the centre of the policy debate.
The discussion focused on how Europe can give people effective protection when something goes wrong, while keeping the rules clear enough for companies to innovate with confidence.
Members agreed that any liability framework must fit alongside the existing AI Act and product-safety rules, avoiding duplication and contradictory obligations that would be hard to navigate in practice.
There was also strong support for proportionality: rules should reflect the real risks of a given use case, so that low-risk applications are not weighed down by requirements designed for the most sensitive systems.
People deserve clear routes to redress, and businesses deserve clear rules. A well-designed liability framework can deliver both.
DOT Europe member roundtable
DOT Europe will feed the insights from this roundtable into its ongoing engagement with EU institutions as the AI liability debate develops.
