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FTC chair suggests AI developers should be liable for conduct of agents (www.reuters.com)
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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/52426446

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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[–] 2 points 6 days ago (1 child)

let’s say with cars marketed as “FSR”, people would believe it is full self-driving. because it is marketed as such. the exact words are there. is it entirely the consumer’s fault?

This is exactly the same issue as who is liable for using a LLM tool. You cannot pawn off responsibility onto a computer system. If you run over someone with your self-driving car, you're at fault.

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  • [–] 1 point 6 days ago*

    Now you’re moving the goalposts.

    You cannot pawn off responsibility onto a computer system.

    Have I mentioned such a thing?

    If you run over someone with your self-driving car, you’re at fault.

    I could agree with this, except that wasn't my point wasn't it?

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