AI agents aren’t legally responsible for any harm that they cause, experts say. So who is?

You rolled a bowling ball down a hill. It struck a few cars on the way and went through a house and killed their pet. Guess who would be held responsible? You or the bowling ball manufacturer?

What if the bowling ball was really shiny and worth $100B? Should it make a difference?

What if you bowl your ball normally down the lane and of its own initiative it goes and hacks a website?

In that case, society’s to blame.

Really? I’m inclined to blame that on the manufacturer. If ‘AI’ guardrails fail that spectacularly, it’s on the provider. I fail to see any way to blame society, other than perhaps not voting in more sanity, but that’s pretty indirect.

Sigh. I really need to put /s around things.

It’s a Monty Python quote.