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digitaltrees • today at 12:18 AM • 0 replies • view on HN

It’s generally not necessary or productive to impute intent to the counterparty.

Notwithstanding, your assertion that my comment isn’t serious I assure you it is. Agent principal liability is a reasonable framework to explore how to apportion culpability and restitution. You may not think that ai agents aren’t legal persons and that is a defensible position that I’d be happy to debate but it is also defensible to assert they act on behalf of users with sufficient autonomy to warrant application of that legal analysis.

As far as liability being established from predicting what the agent does do you think you could have predicted that an ai agent would find an obscure message board that just happened to let get requests write data to the message board? That seems like an impossible scenario prior to being seen in the real world.