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.
I’d say the difference is that a gun doesn’t HAVE any other use-case. Its purpose is exclusively to injure or kill living things.
Also, there’s definitely a difference in the capabilities of each tool. The severity of what a gun is capable if is a heck of a lot higher than what an LLM agent is capable of (doomsdayers notwithstanding).
I do generally agree with you, though. America’s gun violence problem is not reeeeally a function of America having more guns. That’s just an exacerbating factor.