[wcarss]

lol, uh, I'm pretty sure they actually can't.

You or a business with legal owners can have a bank account, and you can give access to that account to an agent, but real banks work in the real world, and "know your customer" regulations need a real person somewhere in the chain.

But, hey, maybe I'm wrong.

[hydrogen7800]

I wish I could properly cite it, but one of my favorite HN comments recently was, to paraphrase, "thing, but from the Internet". Which is to say that old rules don't apply, for some reason.

[kotaKat]

It's OK because one of the AIs paid off the AI pretending to be the government regulator, I guess?

[arshbot]

An agent could open this bank account if you prefer to give it access to your social, passport, etc - entirely up to the individual's risk profile.

Liability always follows the human as has been the case with all tools, motor vehicles, and pets.

[fc417fc802]

Things are going to get weird when the automatons become sophisticated enough to pull off identity theft while unsupervised.

Putting a brick on the gas pedal is obviously negligent. Whereas it is not so obvious that running a random script from github that spins up an agent with access to your home folder could lead to real world financial crimes.

Truly a strange world we're headed for.