I don't say this to absolve OpenAI, who do deserve to be punished and regulated, but I think you do not know the difference between an agent and a tool. If agentic AI is merely a tool so are human workers.

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jeremyjh 5 hours ago | parent | next [-]

You can't create new law by calling a piece of software "agent". Each country's laws have definitions of legal entities and when one can legally act as an agent of an entity, and every agent is first a legal entity themselves. The software is a tool operated by a legal entity, and it is the legal entity who committed the crimes, not the tool.

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sanderjd 4 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

... no, human workers are people.

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esafak 3 hours ago | parent [-]

In their capacity as workers, they are also agents, capable of completing tasks autonomously.

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sanderjd an hour ago | parent [-]

But AI agents are "merely a tool" and human workers are not, because they are people.

	▲	esafak 30 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		No, they are not. This is what I keep trying to explain: an AI agent is not like a hammer.