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AI agents aren’t legally responsible for any harm that they cause, experts say. So who is?
(www.theguardian.com)
this post was submitted on 13 Aug 2026
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All that is great, and correct, but my point is that it asks you to confirm its commands that it runs. It asks you to confirm every change it makes to your code. It asks you to confirm every file it creates.
Everything it does goes through your permission.
You also shouldn’t have it do anything anywhere close to a production system, so it shouldn’t be able to do anything of any consequence.
So basically use it as a toy for entertainment purposes only... Except it's not marketed to be used that way and far to many people aren't smart or educated in computing enough to use it that way. Accepting a bash command you don't understand is the same as running a bash command you found on the Internet... You shouldnt, but people are far more trusting of the stuff an LLM powered agent comes up with.