Lummis’ RISE Act is ‘timely and needed’ but short on details

Senator Lummis’ RISE Act may be a good start, but does it ask too much of doctors, lawyers and engineers — while shielding AI developers?

Civil liability law doesn’t often make for great dinner-party conversation, but it can have an immense impact on the way emerging technologies like artificial intelligence evolve.

If badly drawn, liability rules can create barriers to future innovation by exposing entrepreneurs — in this case, AI developers — to unnecessary legal risks. Or so argues US Senator Cynthia Lummis, who last week introduced the Responsible Innovation and Safe Expertise (RISE) Act of 2025.

This bill seeks to protect AI developers from being sued in a civil court of law so that physicians, attorneys, engineers and other professionals “can understand what the AI can and cannot do before relying on it.”

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