1) FTC chairman says AI agents will be treated just like any other tool (“resist anthropomorphizing”)
2) Studying enforcement of rules around personalized (“surveillance”) pricing, specifically rideshare, airplanes and food delivery
3) Public comment period open now on new rule to punish companies like Meta and Google that advertise scams.
The last one seems closest to happening but it’s still just a public comment period so it might die.
Avicebron•2h ago
m4rtink•1h ago
missingcolours•1h ago
Well, it depends. If I'm using it according to the instructions and the tool does something it's not supposed to, the manufacturer is liable. If I take a weed whacker and start cutting fiber lines with it, I'm liable.
So in accordance with standard liability practice, AI labs ought to be liable for unintended actions their products take, and the user for illegal actions they direct the product to take.
The slight caveat is that a model just produces text. It can't hack anything on its own. I would say that the product in this scenario would be the harness/agent - if you build a system that takes untrusted input (LLM output) and takes potentially dangerous action based on it, well, that sounds dangerous? Possibly negligent?
downrightmike•53m ago