Libertarian Lens on AI Agents: Instructed Agents and Aggression
AaronBergman18 · x · 2026-10-22
A debate on the ethics of AI agents. Aaron Bergman argues that from a libertarian perspective, agents are agents in a meaningful sense and will aggress upon whomever they are instructed to.
The reply counters that negative externalities are not broadly fake, warning that if anti-safetyist intuitions suggest the "worst-thing-in-the-world-for-those-who-never-signed-up machine" is fine, one should step back.
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