Comment by tomasphan
3 hours ago
You are legally responsible for the actions of your agents. It’s in the name agent = acting on someone’s behalf.
Your English is very interesting by the way. You have some obvious grammatical errors in your text yet beautiful use of formal register.
in terms of "AI": agent is a marketing term, it has no legal meaning
it's a piece of non-deterministic software running on someone's computer
who is responsible for its actions? hardly clear cut
The person who chose to run it (and tell it what to do) is responsible for its actions. If you don't want to be responsible for something nondeterministic software does, then don't let nondeterministic software do that thing.
Hypothetical scenario:
You buy a piece of software, marketed to photographers for photo editing. Nowhere in the manuals or license agreements does it specify anything else. Yet the software also secretly joins a botnet and participates in coordinated attacks.
Question: are you on the hook for cyber-crimes?
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The same as any other computer program: the operator of the program.