At the Reuters Momentum AI Austin event on Friday, Federal Trade Commission Chairman Andrew Ferguson said he will continue to resist describing artificial‑intelligence agents as autonomous actors with independent wills.
Ferguson argued that liability should fall on the developers who program or instruct these tools, stating, "If someone tells a tool to do something and the tool does it, I don’t think we would say, 'Oh, what do we do about the tool?'"
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He emphasized that his opposition to anthropomorphising AI will persist for as long as he remains chairman, framing the issue as a matter of assigning responsibility to the human creators rather than the software itself.
