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If you follow AI you’ve probably heard about the growing volume of proposed AI legislation in the U.S. and beyond as well as the increasing number of AI-related cases being brought before the courts. Today’s guest argues there is another industry that is a key in handling AI-inflicted harms. Everyone’s favorite, the insurance industry.

Anat Lior is a professor at Drexel University’s Kline School of Law and has written broadly about the intersection of insurance and emerging technologies. In our conversation today we’ll be focusing largely on her paper which appeared in the Harvard Journal of Law and Technology called “Insuring AI: The role of insurance in artificial intelligence regulation.”

We discuss insurance’s role in society and its intersection with emerging technology, how insurance can supplement the courts and government regulation, and end with a discussion about specific insurance proposals related to autonomous vehicles. I thought it was a fascinating conversation and I think you’ll enjoy it.