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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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AI agents have no agency of their own; their operators are the ones with that control. Negligence in giving an AI agent access to the internet does not absolve the operator of liability.
But it's called an "agent"! Of course it has agency!
That sounds like something a smoothed brain idiot has or will say…could also be a line out of the movie idiocracy 🤣
But Canada says otherwise - https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/feb/16/air-canada-chatbot-lawsuit
Look, the individual - one, single, unshielded human mind - constantly bombarded with the cumulative brainwashing tools built of hundreds of years of psychological research, ads and manipulative propaganda being ceaselessly fed to them by organizations with bottomless wallets, and perverse lifestyle incentives driven by law, monopolistic market manipulation, and tax codes, is obviously completely to blame for every decision they make and should bear the full brunt of all responsibility.
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The person who inputs it is responsible for the outputs.
You rolled a bowling ball down a hill. It struck a few cars on the way and went through a house and killed their pet. Guess who would be held responsible? You or the bowling ball manufacturer?
What if the bowling ball was really shiny and worth $100B? Should it make a difference?
What if you bowl your ball normally down the lane and of its own initiative it goes and hacks a website?
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If I make a gun that actively chooses to kill people, I didn't build a gun and that whole argument falls apart. I'd hold everyone from the CEO to the janitor accountable.
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That hardware doesn't belong to anybody??
Guess it's mine now >:D
Let me guess, poor people?
The company offering the AI is.
Hottest take: Since it was trained on the output of society, then society itself should pay for AI mistakes.
AI should just die
Fuck those experts