事件经过
2026年10月8日，英格兰和威尔士法律委员会发布了一份咨询文件，提议对1987年《消费者保护法》第一部分进行重大改革：将“产品”定义扩展至包括软件、AI系统、数字制造文件以及在线平台的设
影响分析
It is the first overhaul of UK product-liability law for the AI age and would make AI/software vendors and platform operators strictly (no-fault) liable for defective AI systems, with eased evidential burdens for claimants — a materially expanded liability surface for UK AI deployers, developers and platform operators, and it tracks the EU's 2024 revised Product Liability Directive.
建议行动
AI developers, platform operators, insurers and online marketplaces should respond to the consultation before 14 January 2027 and start mapping defect/liability risk in design and supply chains now.