Vermont H0855 prohibits defendants from claiming autonomous artificial intelligence caused harm in civil actions.
Vermont H0855 amends state law to prohibit defendants from using the defense that harm caused by artificial intelligence was due to the AI's autonomy in civil actions. The bill specifies that this prohibition does not limit other affirmative defenses or evidence related to causation, foreseeability, or negligence. The term "artificial intelligence" is defined as an engineered system that varies in autonomy and can infer outputs from inputs. This act takes effect upon passage.
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