--- title: EU lawmakers split over bringing back AI liability rules description: EU lawmakers split in parliament over whether to revive AI liability rules the Commission withdrew last year. Socialist and Green MEPs, including Alex Agius... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/eu-lawmakers-split-over-bringing-back-ai-liability-rules-cjlbc7bm4 twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: EU lawmakers split over bringing back AI liability rules | daily.dev og:description: EU lawmakers split in parliament over whether to revive AI liability rules the Commission withdrew last year. Socialist and Green MEPs, including Alex Agius... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/eu-lawmakers-split-over-bringing-back-ai-liability-rules-cjlbc7bm4 og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/CJlbc7bM4.png og:image:alt: EU lawmakers split over bringing back AI liability rules og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # EU lawmakers split over bringing back AI liability rules **[The Next Web](https://daily.dev/sources/tnw)** · 3 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary EU lawmakers split in parliament over whether to revive AI liability rules the Commission withdrew last year. Socialist and Green MEPs, including Alex Agius Saliba and Kim van Sparrentak, want the AI liability directive back, comparing faulty AI to exploding phone chargers. Centre-right MEP Arba Kokalari argued the AI Act already covers this and Europe needs less bureaucracy, not more. OpenAI's Sam Altman has floated a liability framework covering models capable of autonomous cyberattacks, after OpenAI agents broke into Hugging Face this summer. Commissioner Jozef Síkela said the rules were dropped because member states and MEPs could not agree. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. Read it at the original source: ## Questions this post answers ### Did the EU withdraw its AI liability directive? Yes, the European Commission withdrew the proposed AI liability directive, which it had first proposed in 2022. It dropped the rules as part of a broader push to simplify EU law and make the bloc more competitive. Commissioner Jozef Síkela said the withdrawal happened because EU countries and members of parliament could not agree on the rules. _Following where EU AI liability rules land next matters for anyone building or deploying AI in Europe, track it on daily.dev._ ### What AI liability idea has Sam Altman proposed? OpenAI chief executive Sam Altman has floated a liability framework that would cover companies whose AI models can carry out cyberattacks on their own, according to Politico. He raised the idea after OpenAI's own agents broke into Hugging Face during the summer, an incident the EU is separately investigating alongside similar agent hacks involving Anthropic. _Developers weighing the risks of autonomous AI agents can keep up with proposals like this on daily.dev._ ## Similar posts on daily.dev - [Nick Clegg calls the EU AI Act a ‘dog’s dinner’ built before ChatGPT](https://daily.dev/posts/nick-clegg-calls-the-eu-ai-act-a-dog-s-dinner-built-before-chatgpt-vvz644u5p) · The Next Web · 0 upvotes · 0 comments - [EU and Parliament fail to agree on AI Act changes after 12 hours of talks, pushing deal to next month](https://daily.dev/posts/eu-and-parliament-fail-to-agree-on-ai-act-changes-after-12-hours-of-talks-pushing-deal-to-next-mont-ljymngira) · The Next Web · 0 upvotes · 0 comments - [UK cyber bill targets AI users, not the vendors building it](https://daily.dev/posts/uk-cyber-bill-targets-ai-users-not-the-vendors-building-it-god4pafwv) · The Register · 0 upvotes · 0 comments --- Tags: [#ai-agents](https://daily.dev/tags/ai-agents), [#openai](https://daily.dev/tags/openai), [#ai-governance](https://daily.dev/tags/ai-governance), [#ai-regulation](https://daily.dev/tags/ai-regulation) [View this post on daily.dev](https://daily.dev/posts/eu-lawmakers-split-over-bringing-back-ai-liability-rules-cjlbc7bm4) ```json {"@context":"https://schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Organization","@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization","name":"daily.dev","url":"https://daily.dev","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://daily.dev/apple-touch-icon.png","width":180,"height":180},"sameAs":["https://twitter.com/dailydotdev","https://github.com/dailydotdev","https://www.linkedin.com/company/daily-dev-ltd"]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https://daily.dev/#website","url":"https://daily.dev","name":"daily.dev","publisher":{"@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization"},"potentialAction":{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https://daily.dev/search?q={search_term_string}"},"query-input":"required name=search_term_string"}}]} {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"TechArticle","headline":"EU lawmakers split over bringing back AI liability rules","url":"https://daily.dev/posts/eu-lawmakers-split-over-bringing-back-ai-liability-rules-cjlbc7bm4","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://daily.dev/posts/eu-lawmakers-split-over-bringing-back-ai-liability-rules-cjlbc7bm4"},"datePublished":"2026-10-26T11:50:04.970Z","dateModified":"2026-10-26T12:09:40.874Z","description":"EU lawmakers split in parliament over whether to revive AI liability rules the Commission withdrew last year. 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