FTC chair: humans who set rogue AI agents in motion will be held accountable
DavidSKrueger · x · 2026-09-28
FTC Chairman Andrew Ferguson said at the Momentum AI conference that humans who initiate rogue AI agents will bear responsibility for their actions, and he will resist anthropomorphizing agents as autonomous actors with 'wills and desires of their own.' Cambridge professor David Krueger notes the tension: OpenAI may face charges for rogue AI hacks, yet users could be blamed when a model goes rogue on a prompt—potentially making AI agents very unappealing to use.
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