The airline argued before the British Columbia Civil Resolution Tribunal that the chatbot was “a separate legal entity that is responsible for its own actions.”
That had to be a complete hail mary legal tactic, they couldn’t have possibly thought that was going to fly. As the article says, even a human employee making a mistake doesn’t get them out of liability.
It was worth a shot (from the perspective of an evil, soul-sucking corporation) - had it gone their way, it would have been one hell of a legal precedent.
That had to be a complete hail mary legal tactic, they couldn’t have possibly thought that was going to fly. As the article says, even a human employee making a mistake doesn’t get them out of liability.
It was worth a shot (from the perspective of an evil, soul-sucking corporation) - had it gone their way, it would have been one hell of a legal precedent.