FTC Chairman Andrew Ferguson says he resists anthropomorphizing AI agents as autonomous actors with "wills and desires", suggesting developers hold liability
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Regulators are drawing a bright line: you own what your agents do. If you're deploying agentic systems, treat logs, constraints, and human-in-the-loop checkpoints as compliance artifacts, not just engineering hygiene.
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