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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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[–] zbyte64@awful.systems 25 points 6 days ago (2 children)

I made a machine that fires a gun based on a random number generator. Obviously it's the tool's fault if it shoots somebody

[–] gastroglizzy@piefed.social 5 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Forget about the machine. If the gun is in your hand, is it the gun's fault if you shoot somebody?

[–] zbyte64@awful.systems 0 points 6 days ago

If I am just a stochastic parrot because I think LLMs basically think like humans do, then I am not really a person but a tool. Can I really be faulted for not having free will?

[–] HerbGrower@slrpnk.net 3 points 6 days ago

Rolls a 1-10 int every nanosecond when I pull the trigger, if it lands on an even number or an odd number that isn't 7, the gun will fire.

Clearly the algorithm is at fault, not me.