US Federal Trade Commission Chairman Andrew Ferguson said on Friday he would resist describing AI agents as ​autonomous actors that "break loose" with "wills and desires of their own," suggesting the developers who instruct agents would be the ones liable ‌for harm.

"I'm going to continue as long as I am chairman to resist this anthropomorphizing of these tools," Ferguson said at the Reuters Momentum AI Austin event. "If someone tells a tool to do something, and the tool does it, I don't think we would say, 'Oh, what do we do about the tool?'"

Ferguson's remarks illustrated potential avenues for the Trump administration to take ​as incidents rise in which agentic AI testing resulted in unauthorized access to corporate or government data.

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[–] 14 points 4 days ago (1 child)

No, I will happily pay for all the damage that Grok, Claude, ChatGPT, and Joe’s bait, tackle, taxidermy and AI will inevitably do to me and my family.

I am also looking forward to the stock market bubble to pop destroying my retirement

It is the least I can do

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  • [–] 3 points 4 days ago

    It's only a stock market bubble if they fail to replace your job! Your retirement could be totally safe, but you better be close. I'm leaning on the AI replacing people in the next year or two. The AI valuations are based on them replacing human labor.

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