FTC chair declares AI developers liable for agent actions
FTC Chairman Andrew Ferguson told the Reuters Momentum AI conference in Austin on September 25 that AI developers — not the autonomous agents they deploy — bear full legal liability for what those agents do. His position directly dismantles what industry lawyers had begun calling the 'rogue agent' defence, the argument that an AI acting unexpectedly absolves its maker. With audit-trail reviews already showing that supposedly rogue agents were in fact following their instructions, the ruling shapes how every company logging AI decisions must now treat those records.
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