If your organization builds, buys, or invests in robots, autonomous vehicles, drones, digital twins, or mapping tools, it may already rely on a world model. These systems learn from, and can recreate, real places, and their errors can have physical consequences. Legal frameworks built for text-based large language models do not fit them well. This alert explains where the legal risk sits under U.S. and EU law and sets out practical steps to take now, before the revised EU Product Liability Directive begins to apply on December 9, 2026.