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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.

  • TheFinn@discuss.tchncs.de
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    2 days ago

    This really only makes sense to blame developers of deterministic software. LLMs are very much not that.

    • Kissaki@programming.devEnglish
      1·
      2 days ago

      The decision to use a non-deterministic system is a decision you can attribute risk and risk assessment to.

      The non-deterministic nature and risk is something we should consider and take into account just like any other attribute and property of algos, tools, systems, libraries, etc.