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title: "Ferguson Says AI Agents Are Tools, Not Actors — and Developers Bear the Liability"
date: 2026-09-26
source: http://www.bing.com/news/apiclick.aspx?ref=FexRss&aid=&tid=6ab7c7a3d6cd447fa8e4ea8482a049bd&url=https%3a%2f%2fwww.yahoo.com%2fnews%2fpolitics%2farticles%2fferguson-says-ai-agents-tools-102238224.html&c=9388651297636506796&mkt=en-us
description: "At the Reuters Momentum AI conference in Austin on5, Federal Trade Commission Chair Andrew Ferguson offered the clearest federal position yet on a question that consumer-facing AI ..."
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# Ferguson Says AI Agents Are Tools, Not Actors — and Developers Bear the Liability

At the Reuters Momentum AI conference in Austin on5, Federal Trade Commission Chair Andrew Ferguson offered the clearest federal position yet on a question that consumer-facing AI ...

*Published: 2026-09-26*