Ensuring AI Safety

Tech Justice Law is establishing a new frontier of public-interest litigation, one that ensures artificial intelligence products are safe by design, subject to oversight, and transparent to their users.

Our work is grounded in a simple, yet important premise: if it would be illegal, exploitative, or dangerous for a human actor to engage in certain conduct, it should not be immunized simply because the harm is mediated through software. This principle animated why, in fall 2024, we filed the first wrongful death case on behalf of Megan Garcia, against an AI chatbot company, Character.AI, its co-founders Noam Shazeer and Daniel DeFreitas, and Google.

TJL’s lawyers creatively apply long-established legal doctrines such as product liability, consumer protection, wrongful death, and deceptive trade practices to the digital age. Rather than accept the tech industry’s insistence that AI products are constitutionally-protected speech and therefore beyond regulation, TJL recognizes free expression as a cornerstone of democracy, while also confronting an emerging reality —  we now live in an environment of algorithmic manipulation and automated persuasion that can undermine the freedom of thought itself. TJL’s work articulates this tension with rigor and care, defending civil liberties while refusing to allow constitutional doctrine to be weaponized against public safety and human dignity.

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