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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.

  • zbyte64@awful.systems
    22·
    3 days ago

    I made a machine that fires a gun based on a random number generator. Obviously it’s the tool’s fault if it shoots somebody

    • HerbGrower@slrpnk.net
      2·
      3 days ago

      Rolls a 1-10 int every nanosecond when I pull the trigger, if it lands on an even number or an odd number that isn’t 7, the gun will fire.

      Clearly the algorithm is at fault, not me.