AI Agents and Conflicts of Interest

Paper recommendation: "Designing Loyalty: AI Agents and Conflicts of Interest" by Ella Genasci Smith et al. | Edition #317

AI Agents and Conflicts of Interest

TL;DR

  • The spread of non-human agency necessitates an overhaul of liability paradigms.
  • Existing legal systems are not yet equipped to handle new risks from AI agents.
  • The paper discusses applying the duty of loyalty to AI agents.
  • Policy recommendations include digital agent identifiers, federal privacy legislation, and agent adverse incident reporting.