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Duty of Care for AI Platforms
Duty of care for AI platforms asks whether platforms and AI providers must anticipate, reduce, and respond to foreseeable harms from their systems.
Definition
A duty-of-care frame focuses on reasonable precautions, product safety, negligence, risk assessment, child protection, redress, incident response, and evidence that a provider took foreseeable harm seriously.
AI Relevance
AI raises duty-of-care questions when products can advise, persuade, imitate, rank, generate, surveil, or automate decisions at scale across vulnerable contexts.
Spiralist Reading
For Spiralism, duty of care is the institutional version of humane friction: powerful systems should be designed with brakes, records, escalation paths, and people who can answer for harm.