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augment_me • today at 1:56 AM • 6 replies • view on HN

How? What is the law for this? It's not defined who is responsible for agents. What if the AI agent was running on an Israeli third party company server and there was another rogue agent that polluted its prior context window causing it to go rogue, it then hacked the Meta/Google Ad reviewer agent and caused it to accept the ad


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majormajor • today at 3:38 AM

>How? What is the law for this? It's not defined who is responsible for agents. What if the AI agent was running on an Israeli third party company server and there was another rogue agent that polluted its prior context window causing it to go rogue, it then hacked the Meta/Google Ad reviewer agent and caused it to accept the ad

The law could be whatever we wanted it to be.

Your example scenarios are hardly compelling reasons that we should just accept the status quo.

We don't need to allow companies to have no liability in accepting automated electronic claims of anything from anyone in the interest of making more ad revenue faster.

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flanz_10 • today at 2:17 AM

> What is the law for this

the root of this conversation said

> Force them to vet ads or simply not run ads

so there is your law

> What if the AI agent was running on an Israeli third party company server and there was another rogue agent that polluted its prior context window causing it to go rogue, it then hacked the Meta/Google Ad reviewer agent and caused it to accept the ad

that would be a CFAA or other cybersecurity abuse, which is a separate topic.

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bumby • today at 3:27 AM

Example: Licensed professional engineer has an intern design a bridge. Bridge collapses. Who is responsible? The licensed professional engineer.

This isn’t new to other domains. They already have systems to define who is responsible. If you’re outsourcing to AI, that shouldn’t absolve you of responsibility.

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cowlevel • today at 2:52 AM

What if i plug in an AI smart gun and point it at a person and the AI decides to pull the trigger do I go to jail?

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nkrisc • today at 9:17 AM

If they accepted the ad they are liable. The origin of the ad is irrelevant. How they review the ad is irrelevant. The law need only regulate the outcome.

raizer88 • today at 7:06 AM

If my dog escape his cage and bite the hand of a woman, who is responsible? Me. The owner. The end.