Who Is Responsible When AI Acts on Its Own?

Who Is Responsible When AI Acts on Its Own? | What I'm Seeing OVM | Episode 6

When an AI agent does something wrong, who is responsible?

The company that built it? The company that deployed it? The person who gave it the instruction? Or the person responsible for supervising it?

In this episode, Olga V. Mack explores her Autonomy Mapping Framework and why responsibility should be examined through:

• Visibility
• Autonomy
• System access
• Human intervention
• Liability
• AI governance
• AI accountability
• Risk allocation
• Technical architecture
• Responsible AI

The organizations navigating AI accountability effectively won't be the ones that simply write more liability provisions. They'll be the ones that understand how their AI systems actually work, where decisions happen, what systems agents can access, and where humans can intervene.

Responsibility should follow control. Control should follow visibility.

Read the full article:
https://abovethelaw.com/2026/05/the-a...

Connect with Olga V. Mack:
  / olgavmack  

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