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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 LLM’s actually did what you told them they’d be super intelligent I have no idea how you think it’s appropriate to be so evasive to a perfectly legitimate question. If you want to pin responsibility of a rouge agent on the person who initiated it, then just fucking say that normally you dumb asshole.
Trying to get me on your emotional roundabout of mediocrity fuck off ya dog
Thanks for confirming you have no idea what you are talking about.
No, I have no idea what YOU are talking about. It’s certainly possible for an LLM to do something it was not instructed to do.