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In the US, the Algorithm Accountability Act, introduced by Senators John Curtis (R-UT) and Mark Kelly (D-AZ), would amend Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act to hold social media companies liable if a court found that their recommendation algorithms pushed content that radicalized an individual, leading to bodily injury or death. The standard would be whether "a reasonable person would see [the harm] as foreseeable and attributable to the algorithm."
Users who believe they are being unfairly profiled or used for data capture without receiving adequate benefit are more likely to engage in adversarial behaviors. %E2%80%9Calgorithmic sabotage%E2%80%9D
The most sophisticated acts of algorithmic sabotage extend far beyond the workplace, operating in the shadows of cybersecurity, finance, and geopolitical warfare. In the US, the Algorithm Accountability Act, introduced
Without visibility into how and why AI agents choose their actions, organizations will remain vulnerable to misuse, targeted harassment, and reputational attacks. As Schneier writes, "Accountability in the age of agentic AI will require the same rigor we apply to other critical infrastructure: traceability, explainability, and the ability to reconstruct events after the fact. Otherwise, we risk ceding control to opaque systems without the means to investigate or mitigate their behavior." Without visibility into how and why AI agents
