A legal test for AI assistant actions: if you can hire a human to do it, AI should too
sytelus · x · 2026-11-01
sytelus proposes a test for whether AI companies should let assistants perform certain actions: if you could legally hire a human to do it, the AI should be allowed too. He cites case law permitting hiring humans to reverse engineer for private study, and notes reverse engineering is legitimately used to check for IP violations.
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