Giorgos Tsetis: no one is personally accountable for AI. This must change

Giorgos Tsetis is the cofounder of Nutrafol and an active investor in AI companies.

For almost a decade, I led a company whose products people swallowed. If our hair growth supplements caused harm, I was responsible. Not just morally – legally. It kept me awake at night. And that was a good thing. Personal legal responsibility is a powerful tool. It prompts corporate leaders to take the safety of their products seriously, giving consumers confidence in those products. It’s not currently something causing AI leaders to lose sleep. It should be.

Some might think introducing another layer of accountability would stifle innovation. My own experience building what became a multi-billion-dollar company says otherwise. In my industry, the law has long held that the people in charge are personally for the safety of what their companies sell. That accountability was essential to building the consumer trust I needed to make my business a success. It could do the same for AI leaders.

Today, I invest in AI and AI-enabled companies through Great Things™, a new investment model, and my family office. My investments include frontier AI companies such as Anthropic and xAI, infrastructure and compute-related companies such as Positron AI, and AI-enabled science and health platforms such as Lila, which uses AI to accelerate discovery.

I believe AI technologies, if used safely, can help solve some of humanity’s toughest problems and the potential I see in these companies is truly exciting.So I’m putting my capital behind them because I want them to succeed. But as an investor, I’m part of the ecosystem that makes AI innovation possible. And I’ve observed........

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