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Where did I say that we should allow them to offload responsibility? I am fully in support of a pause and regulation to prevent them from creating dangerous AI agents; that support comes from the fact that I don't believe these are simple tools, but out-of-control autonomous agents that have real decision making ability.

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I didn't mean to put words in your mouth, I apologize for that.

The issue is when we say that "agents make autonomous decisions", it's a slippery slope to absolving the companies that created them of responsibility. They make autonomous decisions because they were trained to make autonomous decisions. Treating AI agents as independent entities, even just rhetorically, sets us on a path for people to throw their hands up and say "not my fault" when disaster strikes. We need to maintain accountability and control or we're fucked.

My view is that we need forceful legislation as soon as possible, precisely because the frontier models seem to be uncontrolled and potentially uncontrollable - if it’s a normal tool, the solution is “force OpenAI to fix their broken tool”, but if it’s an alien intelligence, the solution is “force OpenAI to stop making alien intelligence” - that is, treating AI agents as independent entities demands a more forceful response, not less

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