The Liability Gap: When AI Agents Act, Who's Responsible?
TLDR: When an AI agent acts on injected instructions and causes real damage, nobody knows who's liable — not legally, not contractually, not yet. The platforms disclaim everything. The enterprise deployers aren't sure. The end users never understood the risk they accepted. The landmark case that answers this question hasn't been filed yet. The window to document the framework before it lands is open right now. AI agent tools work so reliably most of the time that users rationally stop supervising them. This isn’t negligence — it’s the correct behavioral adaptation to a system with a 95%+ success rate. You stop watching because watching has never mattered. ...