Who Owns This Agent? Tracing AI Agents Back to Their Owners
Autonomous AI agents lack traceability mechanisms to identify deploying accounts, creating accountability gaps for both malicious use and legitimate harm under EU AI Act liability frameworks.
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arXiv:2605.16035v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: AI agents are increasingly deployed to act autonomously in the world, yet there is still no reliable way to trace a harmful agent back to the account that deployed it. This creates the same accountability gap across both ends of the intent spectrum: benign operators may deploy misconfigured or overbroad agents that cause harm unintentionally, while malicious operators may deliberately weaponize agents for scams, harassment, or cyber attacks. In ma
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