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Just Security · · US Federal · AI Governance

Just Security has launched an expert series examining AI accountability, focusing on what legal and institutional responses should look like when AI systems cause real harm.

Why this matters: AI accountability sounds abstract until someone gets hurt and nobody is responsible. That is exactly the gap this kind of work tries to close. Right now, when an AI system makes a bad decision, it is genuinely unclear who answers for it — the developer, the deployer, the user, or nobody. Getting that question right before harm becomes routine is the whole point. The legal and policy frameworks being built now will shape how much recourse ordinary people actually have.

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