Adam Thierer, senior fellow at the nonprofit free-market think tank R Street, worries that innovation could be throttled if Congress doesn’t extend Section 230 to cover AI tools. 

“As AI is integrated into more consumer-facing products, the ambiguity about liability will haunt developers and investors,” he predicted. “It is particularly problematic for small AI firms and open-source AI developers, who could be decimated as frivolous legal claims accumulate.”