为智能体造成损害的法律责任提供基于交互的判定框架
Acting with AI: An Interaction-Based Framework for Agentic Tort Liability

- 按交互类型区分责任:自主漂移、纯工具使用、协作规划
- 通过状态交互日志定位责任节点,支持法院推断行为偏离
- 适合法律界与AI治理研究者,解决AI致害追责难题
具备多步规划、工具调用和持续执行能力的智能体系统在造成损害时,传统侵权法难以分配责任,因其行为路径既非用户完全控制,也非开发者可预见。本文提出一种基于交互的智能体侵权责任框架,借鉴迈克尔·布拉特曼的计划理论及普通法中对人际协同行为的处理方式。将交互分为三类:自主漂移、纯工具使用、协作规划。纯工具情形仍适用产品缺陷与警示义务;协作规划对应独立承包人控制测试、专业过失与过失陈述;自主漂移则类比于雇主责任中的私事外出与严格产品责任。该框架以状态化交互日志为关键证据,帮助法院识别人类-智能体轨迹偏离授权范围的节点,并据此确定责任归属。文章通过四个案例验证框架有效性,对比严格责任与保险方案,探讨监管监督关系,并提出“合理智能体”标准,包含约束验证、认知透明、运行锚定与取证日志四要素。
原文摘要 · Abstract (English)
Agentic AI systems can plan over multiple steps, use tools, and execute tasks over time. When such systems cause harm, tort law struggles to allocate responsibility because the harmful path may be neither fully chosen by the user nor specifically foreseen by the developer. This paper proposes an interaction-based framework for agentic torts, drawing on Michael Bratman's planning theory and on the common law's treatment of human-human concerted action. We distinguish three interaction types: autonomous drift, pure tool use, and collaborative planning. Pure tool cases remain governed by ordinary product-defect and warning doctrines; collaborative planning cases map onto the independent contractor control test, professional malpractice, and negligent misrepresentation; autonomous drift maps onto frolic and detour under respondeat superior and strict product liability. The framework treats the stateful interaction log as the primary evidentiary trace, allowing courts to infer where the human-AI trajectory departed from the authorized undertaking and where liability should attach. We resolve four incident-anchored cases, situate the account alongside strict-liability and insurance-based proposals, note its relationship to regulatory oversight, and propose a ``Reasonable Agent'' standard built around constraint verification, epistemic transparency, runtime grounding, and forensic logging.
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