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Mastercard, announcing its agent-payments standard · Mar 2026"The AI acted autonomously" is no longer a defense. The question in court stops being whether your agent went rogue and becomes what you authorized, and whether you can prove it.
You are responsible for your agent "in the same way you are responsible for what an employee does", with fines up to 10% of worldwide turnover under the DMCCA.
The tribunal held Air Canada liable for a discount its chatbot invented. The promise your bot makes is your promise, the only open question is whether you can prove what it said.
A discount your bot invents, a payee it was never told to pay, a record it deletes, a credential it reads: each one is checked against the authority you granted, before it runs. The refusal is signed, and so is the approval. That is the difference between your agent’s log and evidence you can hand to a court.