I will be a little outside my lane here. I think liability can be a useful tool. I don't think it resolves the big-picture concerns that I'm worried about, but it's certainly on the trajectory to those types of systems. I expect that we'll get increasingly capable general-purpose AI systems that will be difficult to treat with liability in a sector-specific way, because the same system that can be an expert biologist helping with drug discovery can also be used for autonomous hacking and for helping developers find vulnerabilities in their code. That same model that can help with novel drug discovery can also potentially help someone develop dangerous biological compounds.
There's a sense in which the people making this technology are making something so general and increasingly powerful in its ability to manipulate reality that it makes sense to think about how they should potentially have some liability for ensuring that the technology they're putting out there doesn't bring certain harms.
Again, that's not going to ultimately solve the incentives for racing for superintelligence, but it certainly seems to make sense on the way there.