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> Who is accountable for AI agents?

The question!!!

I'm just wondering how in US works if an autonomously car kill someone: I guess the insurance pay, but the penal responsibilities?

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I have to think that the litigation and maybe the legislation will end up deciding that the person in the vehicle is still responsible for any actions of the vehicle.

If someone is a passenger (and the only person) inside a Waymo taxi, and the car runs someone over, it would not make any sense to hold the Waymo passenger responsible for that. If that's how it worked, no one would take a Waymo after the first time this happens.

The passenger is no more liable than they would be if it were a human driving. No one's suggesting anything even like that. MJ Rathbun is more like someone gave the taxi explicit instructions to run people over.

> MJ Rathbun is more like someone gave the taxi explicit instructions to run people over.

My understanding, based on [0], is that it was an unexpected behaviour from the agent.

[0] https://theshamblog.com/an-ai-agent-published-a-hit-piece-on...

> the person in the vehicle is still responsible for any actions of the vehicle

But why I'd allow the car drive for myself if it can make me go to jail even if I didn't anything?

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