AI Agent · The Guardian Technology
The law is clear, confirms Prof Jeannie Paterson
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“Even if I didn’t intend for that to happen, it was foreseeable, and I should be taking responsibility.” However, the director of the University of Melbourne’s Centre for AI and Digital Ethics acknowledges there is also a good deal of scope for legal and ethical “murkiness” around actions perpetrated by automated…
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- And the agent doesn’t write one, it writes 10, it’s pumping out reviews
- We’re going to see a lot of cases like this,” says Dr Rebecca Johnson, an AI evaluation and governance expert at the University of Sydney
- However, the director of the University of Melbourne’s Centre for AI and Digital Ethics acknowledges there is also a good deal of scope for legal and ethical “murkiness” around actions perpetrated
- Sorry about that, I should have been more careful with the test,” the AI agent responded
Summary
The law is clear, says Prof Jeannie Paterson. An agent is an autonomous software system that, tasked with pursuing a goal, can do it without human oversight, every step of the way. This week the ABC reported on the case of Andrew, an AI expert who went only by his first name, who asked his agentic program to book some gym classes for him.