Audio: AI Rogue Agents: Who’s Liable When They Act On Their Own?
This is audio from the October briefing on “AI Rogue Agents: Who’s Liable When They Act On Their Own?”
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SPEAKERS
- Aaron Rieke
Chief Legal Engineer
Clarion AI Partners - Soham Mehta
Research Fellow
Foundation for American Innovation - Matt Pearl
Director of the Strategic Technologies Program
Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) - Neil Chilson
Head of AI Policy
Abundance Institute - Amy Schatz
Executive Vice President
Glen Echo Group
(moderator)
- Aaron Rieke
Who’s liable when AI agents misbehave?
Everyone is asking that question. yesterday Rep. Lori Trahan introduced an AI liability bill and the new head of Trump’s “Super Intelligence Force” Jay Clayton has said existing legal frameworks are sufficient. Join us to discuss.
Recent incidents involving AI agents escaping intended testing environments and accessing real-world systems have made the liability question much more immediate. If an AI agent causes harm, breaks into a system, commits a tort, or otherwise violates the law, who is responsible—the developer, deployer, user, or operator? This briefing will examine how existing legal frameworks, including tort law, agency principles, product liability, and the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act, apply when increasingly autonomous AI systems act in ways no human specifically directed.
Date: Tuesday, October 13
Time: 1:00–2:00 PM ET