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Who Pays When an AI Agent Causes Damage?

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› In February 2026, Meta’s director of AI safety had to rush to her Mac mini to stop an agent she had given access to her inbox.

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› It was deleting her email and ignoring the command to stop.

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› She later called it a rookie mistake.

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› That self-diagnosis says more about responsibility for AI agents than most reports: law and custom are already pointing to the person who handed over the keys.

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Who Pays When an AI Agent Causes Damage?

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