AI on Trial: Who Pays for Rogue Software?
Debating developer liability versus user responsibility for autonomous agents.
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As autonomous AI agents begin acting independently, U.S. law faces a crisis: should creators or users be blamed for digital damage?
Bibliography
- AI agents aren't legally responsible for any harm that they cause, experts ... — theguardian.com
# AI agents aren’t legally responsible for any harm that they cause, experts say. So who is? This article is more than 1 month old After Australia’s first reported automated hacking accident, experts
- Who is liable when AI goes rogue? Lawyers see new risks - Reuters — reuters.com
[Skip to main content](https://www.reuters.com/business/who-is-liable-when-ai-goes-rogue-lawyers-see-new-risks-2026-08-07/#main-content) Aug 7 (Reuters) - Major artificial intelligence developers hav
- Debugging Life | Ep. 197 - Legal Responsibility of AI Agents Examined — youtube.com
As autonomous AI agents become more prevalent, experts note that AI agents are not legally responsible for any harm that they cause.
- Who Is Liable If an AI Agent Causes Harm? - BigID — bigid.com
- Liability for AI agent harm doesn’t fall on a single party — it distributes across the deploying organization, AI developer, data owner, and third-party platform providers depending on where the fai
- Who's legally to blame for Anthropic and OpenAI's autonomous AI hacks ... — reddit.com
Courts have held companies liable for statements their chatbots make. Companies are responsible for illegal hacking by their agents the same way ...
- Is AI liable for rogue actions? - Facebook — facebook.com
They are not legal entities. Those responsible whether knowingly or not, are the ones who didn't take precautions appropriate to the risk.
- The Agent Did It: Who Actually Holds the Bag When Your Autonomous AI ... — medium.com
2 days ago · Can the AI agent itself be held liable? No, not under current U.S. law. an AI assistant is “a tool, not a person” for purposes of the Computer ...
- AI agents aren’t legally responsible for any harm that they cause, experts say — The Guardian, 2026-08-13
Discusses legal standing of AI agents as tools rather than legal entities and the potential liability of deployers.
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