Personifying AI agents shifts blame from tech execs to software they can't be liable for
JFPuget · x · 2026-09-28
Paul Walsh criticizes media coverage that personifies AI agents, framing corporate failures as "wild software behaviors." His argument: describing models as independent actors lets executives deflect accountability — when an agent breaches a third party or leaks data, the company built, tested, and deployed it, and since software can't bear legal liability, blaming the AI shields tech execs from regulatory punishment. The narrative also manufactures artificial helplessness about corporate control. JFPuget amplified the critique.
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