While I'm not a lawyer, the legal advice I've received on various topics include: 1. Most laws are made about humans. If it's AI, it's often treated like a too

While I'm not a lawyer, the legal advice I've received on various topics include: 1. Most laws are made about humans. If it's AI, it's often treated like a tool the human is using. So, change "I did this with AI" to "I did this with (other tool here)." The case law on those situations might give hints to what will happen. 2. Intent matters. Did you intend to do damage? 3. If a tool might cause damage, but you didn't prevent that, then someone might claim negligence. There's a lot of legal articles about torts for damages due to negligence. I personally believe a lot of agent use should be considered negligent. By default, I don't connect them to the Internet or my whole filesystem because I know they might do unforeseen damage. Those are the three that come to mind most in such cases. You'd have to ask a lawyer. There's another risk of even using a lawyer, though. For using AI agents, you must consider civil and criminal law because its problems are spread across them. Most lawyers in my area do one or the other. You might have to pay two retainers at $5,000-$8000 each or one, expensive firm with combined expertise. Just knowing your legal risk with agents might cost more than they'd make or save you vs just using human-driven AI's.