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REUTERS NEXT- FTC Chair Pushes Back on Treating AI Agents as Independent Actors

Sept 25 : U.S. 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"."I'm going to continue as long as I am chairman to resist this anthropomorphizing of these tools," Ferguson said, s

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FTC chair pushes back on treating AI agents as independent actors

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Andrew Ferguson, president of the U.S. Federal Trade Commission (FTC), rejected the idea of treating artificial intelligence agents as independent actors with “wills and desires of his own.” His position points to developers and companies who could continue to respond for damage caused by AI systems that execute the instructions they receive. *** Ferguson refused to “anthropomorphize” AI agents and describe them as entities that simply escape hu…

U.S. Federal Trade Commission Chairman Andrew Ferguson said he will refuse to describe artificial intelligence agents as entities The post The FTC refuses to treat AI agents as independent actors appeared first on .

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