# Regulating the Risks of AI - Type: News - Source: SSRN - Date: 2022-08-22 - Original: https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=4195066#entry-30 - Canonical: https://overview.legal/posts/6287 - Topics: Artificial Intelligence, AI Standards, Security, Human Resources, Liability, IP Address, Scientific Research, Public Sector, Education, Public Authority ## Summary > This Article observes that constructing AI harms as risks is a choice with consequences. Risk regulation comes with its own policy baggage: a set of tools and troubles that have emerged in other fields. Moreover, there are at least four models for risk regulation, each with divergent goals and methods. Emerging conflicts over AI risk regulation illustrate the tensions that emerge when regulators employ one model of risk regulation, while stakeholders call for another. ## Full text [Skip to main content](#maincontent "Skip to content") [](#) [ ![PDF icon](https://static.ssrn.com/cfincludes/img/icons/icon-adobe-pdf.svg "PDF icon")Download This Paper ](Delivery.cfm/SSRN%5FID4195066%5Fcode1735610.pdf?abstractid=4195066&mirid=1) [ Open PDF in Browser ](Delivery.cfm/SSRN%5FID4195066%5Fcode1735610.pdf?abstractid=4195066&mirid=1&type=2) [ Add Paper to My Library ](#) Share: Permalink Using these links will ensure access to this page indefinitely [Copy URL](# "Copy Permalink URL") [Copy DOI](# "Copy DOI URL") # Regulating the Risks of AI [Forthcoming, Boston University Law Review, Vol. 103, 2023](#) 85 Pages Posted: 23 Aug 2022 [See all articles by Margot E. Kaminski](https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/cf%5Fdev/AbsByAuth.cfm?per%5Fid=1735610 "View other papers by this author")[Margot E. KaminskiUniversity of Colorado Law School; Yale University - Yale Information Society Project; University of Colorado at Boulder - Silicon Flatirons Center for Law, Technology, and Entrepreneurship ](https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/cf%5Fdev/AbsByAuth.cfm?per%5Fid=1735610 "View other papers by this author") Date Written: August 19, 2022 ### Abstract Companies and governments now use Artificial Intelligence (AI) in a wide range of settings. But using AI leads to well-known risks—that is, not yet realized but potentially catastrophic future harms that arguably present challenges for a traditional liability model. It is thus unsurprising that lawmakers in both the United States and the European Union (EU) have turned to the tools of risk regulation for governing AI systems. This Article observes that constructing AI harms as risks is a choice with consequences. Risk regulation comes with its own policy baggage: a set of tools and troubles that have emerged in other fields. Moreover, there are at least four models for risk regulation, each with divergent goals and methods. Emerging conflicts over AI risk regulation illustrate the tensions that emerge when regulators employ one model of risk regulation, while stakeholders call for another. This Article is the first to examine and compare a number of recently proposed and enacted AI risk regulation regimes. It asks whether risk regulation is, in fact, the right approach. It closes with suggestions for addressing two types of shortcomings: failures to consider other tools in the risk regulation toolkit (including conditional licensing, liability, and design mandates), and shortcomings that stem from the nature of risk regulation itself (including the inherent difficulties of non-quantifiable harms, and the dearth of mechanisms for public or stakeholder input). **Keywords:** AI, data privacy, regulation, governance, risk regulation, risks, artificial intelligence **Suggested Citation:** [Suggested Citation](#) Kaminski, Margot E., Regulating the Risks of AI (August 19, 2022). Forthcoming, Boston University Law Review, Vol. 103, 2023, Available at SSRN: or [http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.4195066 ](https://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.4195066) [ ](#) ### [Margot E. 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