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- programming@programming.dev
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- programming@programming.dev
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.
If you tell it “write me a poem” and it steals your neighbor’s wifi password, it is 100% openAI’s fault.
If you tell it “steal my neighbor’s” wifi password and it does so, it’s partly your fault and partly openAI’s fault
Finally someone uses an example instead of an analogy. You missed a perfectly good chance to compare AI to a fork or a knife. Like a fork can assist you in developing a novel bio-weapon lol.