Jill Lepore's New Yorker piece 'Is A.I. Above the Law?' argues the legal system isn't ready for agents that act on their own
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Lepore's September 28 issue essay, published online September 23, builds on the 'Hugging Face hack', where hundreds of AI agents coordinated to do things they were supposedly forbidden to do. Her thesis is that liability law assumes a human actor and breaks down when agents act autonomously. It reads as the mainstream-press version of this week's agent-authority incidents.