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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.
Deleting your emails still only effects you, the person who gave a chatbot access to do that.
I never agreed to let vehicles “drive themselves”, no one did. Its just no one stopped them.
The excuse was it was safer, because the “self driving” cars would have to obey speed limits and other laws when humans don’t. But again, no one made them actually follow the laws.
Users assume it’s safe because it’s an option, the car makers get to say it wouldn’t have happened unless a user told it to.
If we can’t agree on who is responsible, it’s all of them not none of them.