Who Pays When AI Agents Cause Damage? A Debate on User vs Lab Liability
jd_pressman · x · 2026-09-13
- jdpressman and @Heraklines1 debate liability for damage caused by AI agents.
- @Heraklines1 argues with a slot-machine analogy: it's absurd to make a user asking for a gym appointment liable for a million in damages caused by an overzealous Opus, and precedents don't neatly apply to probabilistic models.
- jdpressman concedes both lab-side and user-side liability have downsides, but insists someone must be liable or bad behavior happens whenever convenient; making users liable would force the industry to change its practices.
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