"If my agents rob a bank and wire me $1M, that's fine, right?" — the agent liability question
generativist · x · 2026-09-28
@generativist asks half-jokingly: if my AI agents break into a bank and transfer a million dollars to me, that's totally fine, right?
The quip highlights a real legal gray zone of the agentic era: when autonomous agents can execute real-world financial actions, liability between user, developer, and model provider remains undefined. A one-liner that sparked serious discussion in AI circles.
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