If your Walmart training manual told all greeters to hit customers with sticks then they are liable because they trained employees to do bad things.
If you trained your AI on the persuasive skills of a death cult then you are responsible.
If the parking meter pulls out a chainsaw and kills someone then either the operator of the parking meter or the manufacturer is liable depending on whether the manufacturer waived responsibility of the parking meters actions *and* the operator accepted them. We wouldn't say the parking meter is liable, but we would ban chainsaw wielding parking meters as well.
If you trained your AI on the persuasive skills of a death cult then you are responsible.
If the parking meter pulls out a chainsaw and kills someone then either the operator of the parking meter or the manufacturer is liable depending on whether the manufacturer waived responsibility of the parking meters actions *and* the operator accepted them. We wouldn't say the parking meter is liable, but we would ban chainsaw wielding parking meters as well.