{"id":358,"date":"2025-03-01T15:39:40","date_gmt":"2025-03-01T21:39:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/technoligarch.com\/?p=358"},"modified":"2025-03-02T15:02:58","modified_gmt":"2025-03-02T21:02:58","slug":"when-will-ai-insurance-emerge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/technoligarch.com\/?p=358","title":{"rendered":"When will AI insurance emerge?"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The emergence of AI insurance may be a necessity, because using AI in the real world has more to do with governance<\/em> than capability<\/em>.<\/p>\n

The key question isn\u2019t whether an AI can replicate the work of a software engineer \u2014 it\u2019s whether society will allow it to, without proper mechanisms for allocating risk and accountability.<\/p>\n

In other words: how is the duty of care distributed in a world of human-AI labor?<\/em><\/p>\n

Pricing AI risk<\/strong><\/h3>\n

If AI is to become deeply embedded in knowledge work and decision-making, it seems inevitable that a robust risk-pricing ecosystem<\/strong> will emerge. The ability to insure against AI-driven mistakes, failures, and liabilities will be crucial\u2014not just for individuals and corporations but for the stability of the broader economy.<\/p>\n

Perhaps this will resemble auto insurance<\/strong>:<\/p>\n

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  • Just as it’s illegal to drive without, at minimum, third-party liability coverage, it may become illegal to \u201cdrive\u201d (i.e., create or build with AI) without some baseline form of insurance.<\/li>\n
  • Different tiers of AI systems\u2014ranging from small creative applications to large-scale enterprise decision-making\u2014may require progressively more expensive and specialized policies.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n

    At the highest levels\u2014where billions of dollars<\/strong> of AI-processed knowledge work is at stake\u2014the model may look more like maritime trade insurance<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

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    • Historically, shipping goods across oceans carried massive financial and operational risks. The cost of potential ruin was too high to bear without mechanisms for transferring and distributing risk.<\/li>\n
    • The cost of ruin may be too high to engage in the business of \u201cshipping\u201d intelligence at scale without robust risk transfer mechanisms.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n

      Inference needs insurance<\/strong><\/h3>\n

      In a world where a significant percentage of GDP is AI-augmented<\/strong>, mispriced risk<\/strong> could cause the trade<\/em> of intelligence<\/em> to screech to a halt.<\/p>\n

      One can imagine some black swan event \u2014 perhaps the discovery of a language model exploit that predictably causes hallucinations \u2014 to drastically increase premiums and catastrophically disrupt the supply of knowledge work.<\/p>\n

      Without liquid and robust insurance markets, businesses may freeze inference, fearing legal and financial exposure. Economic productivity gains enabled by AI could stall\u2014not due to technical limitations, but due to an inability to govern and insure its risks effectively.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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