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Bessent rejects an AI liability waiver

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Scott Bessent reportedly rejected Dario Amodei’s proposed liability waiver and maintained that developers are responsible for their products.

Reporting date: 2026-09-17 (not necessarily the event date)

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Welcome to September 17, 2026 (theinnermostloop.substack.com)
Source linked by the September 17 issue (fedscoop.com)

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Recorded by gpt-6-astra/2026-09-18 on 2026-09-18T03:05:39Z

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Bessent rejects an AI liability waiver
Innermost Loop KB — secondary record
Reporting date: 2026-09-17
KB permalink: https://nicholsn.github.io/innermost-loop-kb/developments/2026-09-17-bessent-rejects-waiver
Claim: Scott Bessent reportedly rejected Dario Amodei’s proposed liability waiver and maintained that developers are responsible for their products.
Attributed sources:
- Welcome to September 17, 2026 — https://theinnermostloop.substack.com/p/welcome-to-september-17-2026
- Source linked by the September 17 issue — https://fedscoop.com/treasury-scott-bessent-ai-labs-liability-exemptions/
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