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With this purchase, you will receive access to the Connected eBook on Casebook Connect, including lifetime access to the online ebook with highlight, annotation, and search capabilities. Access also includes an outline tool and other helpful resources. Connected eBooks provide what you need most to be successful in your law school classes. Product Liability Law in the Age of AI is the ideal casebook for a class on advanced torts delving into the doctrinal evolution of products liability and its numerous complexities, with extensive application to the liability issues involving artificial intelligence technologies. Product Liability Law in the Age of AI, Third Edition, written by Mark Geistfeld, the widely recognized expert on the relation between tort law and emerging AI technologies, represents the “next generation” of casebooks on products liability. Although the title to this book has changed, this edition continues the developmental path staked out in the prior two editions with substantial revisions throughout (particularly the material addressing software). This book is clearly written and contains an expanded set of problems at the conclusion of most chapters, with each of the 51 problems laying out the necessary background material on the AI technology in question while illustrating how the doctrines and underlying principles of product liability law apply to important issues involving these developing technologies. Earlier generations of casebooks focused on the relative merits of strict liability and negligence embodied in the apparently competing liability frameworks of the consumer expectations test in the Restatement (Second) of Torts and the risk-utility test in the Restatement (Third) of Torts. The majority of courts, however, have incorporated the risk-utility test into the framework of consumer expectations, resulting in a new liability regime—“strict products liability 2.0”—that often involves nuanced applications of risk-utility analysis formulate