# At a US House hearing, Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said AI labs should get no liability exemptions and called for more open-source models built in the US (Matt Bracken/FedScoop) — retained record

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<a href="https://fedscoop.com/treasury-scott-bessent-ai-labs-liability-exemptions/"><img align="RIGHT" border="0" hspace="4" src="http://www.techmeme.com/260915/i49.jpg" vspace="4" /></a>
<p><a href="https://www.techmeme.com/260915/p49#a260915p49" title="Techmeme permalink"><img height="12" src="http://www.techmeme.com/img/pml.png" style="border: none; padding: 0; margin: 0;" width="11" /></a> Matt Bracken / <a href="https://fedscoop.com/">FedScoop</a>:<br />
<span style="font-size: 1.3em;"><b><a href="https://fedscoop.com/treasury-scott-bessent-ai-labs-liability-exemptions/">At a US House hearing, Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said AI labs should get no liability exemptions and called for more open-source models built in the US</a></b></span>&nbsp; &mdash;&nbsp; The secretary told House Financial Services Committee lawmakers that the &ldquo;best way to guarantee safety&rdquo; is for AI creators to be held &hellip; </p>
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