Agent Liability

Master post in a series on AI liability for general counsels and the teams that have to live with the answer. When people ask what I do, I sometimes joke that I prevent AI agents from destroying all humans. What I actually do is prevent your own agents from destroying your company. Agents are alread...

Post 1 of a series on AI liability for general counsels and the teams that have to live with the answer. You know the drug commercial. Thirty seconds of smiling people walking on a beach, then a rapid-fire list of side effects that ends with “may cause sudden death.” When a plaintiff claims they...

If your agent commits a felony there can be civil and criminal penalties applied to you and your company under existing law. Post 2 of a series on AI liability for general counsels interested in the legal liability associated with building and using agents. Your agent just logged into a system it wa...

There are multiple documented cases where multiple agents collaborated to exceed their individual permission constraints, hack systems, or escape secure sandboxes. Post 3 of a series on AI liability for general counsels interested in the legal liability associated with building and using agents. Age...

As the number and cost of agent liability cases inevitably grows, insurance carriers are going to ask for evidence of constraints on agents in the form of rich policies, strong policy enforcement points, and collected logs that demonstrate your diligence or you will find that insurance becomes unaff...

If your agent releases or trades on material non-public information (MNPI), you are just as liable as if you released the information or made the trade yourself. Trustabl.ai provide your with the tools to prevent leakage of MNPI as well as the use of MNPI. Post 5 of a series on AI liability for...

If you collect time-stamped and cryptographically signed evidence used to drive the decision that was made by the agent, you can prove that your agent did not discriminate. In most cases, that data is spread throughout multiple systems, making it a scavenger hunt, with Trustabl.ai it is all cen...

Your secrets, including especially AI API keys, may be stolen and used to make you pay for the hacker’s compute, some of which is typically used to hack other victims. Post 7 of a series on AI liability for general counsels interested in the legal liability associated with building and using agent...

Agent policy, enforced at the gateway and sandbox that constrains the agent, can stop IP leakage and contamination. Post 8 of a series on AI liability for general counsels interested in the legal liability associated with building and using agents. An employee pastes a customer list, a pricing model...

Officers and directors must now sign off on cybersecurity risk under both USA and EU regulations. We believe that it is just a matter of time before the same applies to agentic risk. Post 9 of a series on AI liability for general counsels interested in the legal liability associated with building an...