Do you trust your employees? Do you trust a contracter? Do you trust other people?

AI is similar to a person you dont know that does work for you. Probably AI is a bit more trustworthy than a random person.

But a company, needs to let employees take ownership of their work, and trust them. Allow them to make mistakes.

Isnt AI no different?

Yes, it is different.

An AI actions and reasons through probabilistic methods - creating a lot more risk than a human with memory, emotions, and rationale thinking.

We can’t trust AI to do any sensitive work because they consistently f up. With & without malicious intent, whether it’s a fault of their attention mechanisms, reward hacking, instrumental convergence, etc all very different than what causes most human f ups.

I think a key ingredient here is accountabilty and liability.

If there's a mistake, you can't blame the computer. Who is the human accountable at the end of it all? If there's liability, who pays for it?

That's where defining clear boundaries helps you design for your risk profile.

Can you sue an ai agent?

It’s totally different. People have to obey laws and contracts because there are consequences if they don’t, there are fines, arbitrage, courts.

What happens if AI agent you run causes a lot of damage? The best you can do is to turn it off

Exactly, and I would never turn over my email or computer over to a contractor or anyone really. They get their own environment, email etc. Their actions stay as their actions.

My point is: Trust the work of AI just like the work of a contracter: Check and verify, but dont micromanage.

As others have said: accountability