Public Nuisance

Public nuisance is a legal doctrine holding that conduct causing widespread harm to a community can trigger civil or criminal liability, even when no single individual suffers direct injury. In the AI governance context, this framework has emerged as a potential regulatory tool for addressing harms from large language models and other AI systems that affect broad populations, such as disinformation at scale or widespread discrimination in hiring algorithms. Enterprise organizations should monitor how regulators and courts apply this doctrine to AI, as it could expand liability beyond traditional product liability and contract law.

1 item