Consumers need protection from AI agents, lawmaker says

As artificial quality spreads crossed the U.S. economy, Sen. Mark Warner wants to rein successful AI agents, the autonomous bots that tin implicit tasks for consumers, specified arsenic booking trips and shopping online. 

The Virginia Democrat is supporting a first-of-its-kind draft bill — the Artificial Intelligence Access, Gatekeeper Exchange and Nondiscriminatory Transfer, oregon AI Agent, Act — that proposes privateness and information measures that helium said would support consumers and businesses from imaginable risks of using AI.

"As agentic AI transforms however Americans interact with technology, consumers merit a existent prime successful the marketplace – and AI agents indispensable beryllium accountable to the radical they serve," Warner said successful a connection connected Monday. "This treatment draught is simply a large measurement toward gathering a wide national model that promotes innovation, protects consumers and ensures the United States continues to pb the satellite successful emerging technology."

The AI Agent Act proposes establishing rights and responsibilities for AI agents that entree ample online platforms, portion besides ensuring they enactment successful a user's champion interest. It would besides make a Federal Trade Commission registry of trusted AI agents to guarantee that consumers don't manus implicit their idiosyncratic accusation to a bot that could enactment it astatine risk. 

"An AI cause that has entree to a user's astir delicate information and entree rights – including email, e-commerce accounts and recognition cards – indispensable behave successful fiduciary-like mode to support users," a draught summary of the connection states. 

The measurement would besides necessitate AI agents to support users' privateness and immoderate information they collect, to enactment "in a user's champion interest," and to support businesses from being exploited by unauthorized AI agents. 

Warner is releasing the draught measure to solicit feedback from stakeholders and the nationalist earlier formally introducing it, helium said. 

The usage of AI-powered buying assistants could relationship for up to $385 cardinal of U.S. e-commerce income by 2030, according to Morgan Stanley. 

Edited by Alain Sherter

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