AI Agents Must Follow the Law

5 comments

• earleybird 5 hours ago
  The authors concoct a Rube Goldberg legal framework on the assumption that an AI agent is acting as an independent legal entity. A straightforward way would be to say that any AI agent is acting on behalf of someone and that someone is who shall be held accountable.
• exac 5 hours ago
  If I set up an AI agent, and then die, who is responsible if it starts breaking the law and doing damage?
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  • paulddraper 3 hours ago
    Your estate.

    Imagine the AI is a tree in your yard. And that it fell over on someone’s house.
  • bdangubic 5 hours ago
    your next of kin
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    • polishdude20 4 hours ago
      Is that the same if you owned property, you let it deteriorate, someone went on the property and fell in a ditch. Who's responsible?
• kbelder 6 hours ago
  So must bicycles, hammers, and can-openers.
• hbartab 6 hours ago
  Not even politicians follow the law consistently...
• bigyabai 7 hours ago
  Maybe it's not such a great idea to create black holes of accountability for the legal frameworks in your society.