Meta, Google, and AI Liability: Evolving Legal Risks and AI's Dirty Little Secrets
In this episode of Coopers’ Code, Miles Cooper and Shahrad Milanfar look at how AI is creating real legal consequences across product liability, privacy, discovery, copyright, and cybersecurity. They discuss recent verdicts involving Meta, Google, and YouTube, including New Mexico’s case against Meta, and what these outcomes may signal for future claims tied to social media, addictive design, and AI-related harms.
They also examine a growing set of legal questions around AI chats, transcription, privilege, consent, and human authorship, including the Sutter Health lawsuit and Thaler v. Perlmutter. Throughout, the episode keeps its focus on the same core issue: AI may expand efficiency and capability, but the law still depends on human judgment, accountability, and safeguards.
Links:
* United States v. Heppner: https://harvardlawreview.org/blog/2026/03/united-states-v-heppner/ [https://harvardlawreview.org/blog/2026/03/united-states-v-heppner/]
* Claude Mythos: https://thehackernews.com/2026/04/anthropics-claude-mythos-finds.html [https://thehackernews.com/2026/04/anthropics-claude-mythos-finds.html]
* Restaurant’s dancing robot gets too excited: https://youtube.com/shorts/ZrPqiS5Vwmo?si=e3Rv8Se-G0Temuhd [https://youtube.com/shorts/ZrPqiS5Vwmo?si=e3Rv8Se-G0Temuhd]
* AI documentary: https://tv.apple.com/us/movie/the-ai-doc-or-how-i-became-an-apocaloptimist/umc.cmc.4a45bulcd7e4urydi90xmfu86 [https://tv.apple.com/us/movie/the-ai-doc-or-how-i-became-an-apocaloptimist/umc.cmc.4a45bulcd7e4urydi90xmfu86]
More about Shahrad:
* https://www.milanfarlaw.com/attorney/milanfar-shahrad-esq/ [https://www.milanfarlaw.com/attorney/milanfar-shahrad-esq/]
* https://www.linkedin.com/in/shahradmilanfar/ [https://www.linkedin.com/in/shahradmilanfar/]
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