‘You could be responsible for what your AI does’: 1 in 7 Brits fear AI agents could get them into legal trouble — and experts warn they’re right to be concerned
- Brits are worried that their personal AI agent could break the law if given too much control over their life
- But they wouldn't be willing to accept responsibility, with many instead blaming the AI agent's designer
- There are a lot of trust issues when it comes to companies and services deploying AI to make decisions
If you gave an AI agent total control over your personal life, would you expect it to do anything illegal? Well that’s something to start worrying about because you could be held responsible.
We’ve done plenty of testing on personal AI agents, even going so far as to give them complete control over our personal data, but one thing we haven’t really considered is what happens when an AI agent does something wrong. Of course, when it goes wrong for the big players, the only consequence is an apology thinly veiled as a demonstration...
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