> AI does not have goals

You can try to language-police all you want, that doesn’t change the fact that the best way to describe the reality of the effects that LLMs have on the real world is to use language that analogizes to human concepts.

That, in turn, allows for people to just point at the agent as a human analog and shirk responsibility. Understand: that's the goal of a lot of people who don't have anyone's best intentions but their own in mind.

Ultimately, they do nothing without humans in the loop. The prime mover here is a person who can bear at least some legal consequence for what the program does, even if it's just having to deal with an investigation.