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.
I love how all the tech bros in here are lowkey trying to save your jobs with licensing lmaoo I see you out here, but i dont think theres any more room. The lawyers and accountants are going to keep their lil thingy. All of these examples of things you need a license to operate… It’s the lawyer problem, try to make a domain exceedingly complicated in order to justify you’re high paying career. Now we got 100,000 pages of obscure laws no one can follow, and a justice system based on how much cash you can pump in. Good luck on your proposed gatekeeping ladder pull maneuver.