FTC chair says developers, not AI agents, answer for what agents do
FTC Chairman Andrew Ferguson said he will resist describing AI agents as actors with "wills and desires of their own", and suggested the developers who instruct them are liable for harm. He added that the FTC's existing power to act on hidden data breaches may cover AI developers too.
Why it matters. If this view holds, the team that built or deployed an agent carries the blame for what it does.
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