Cover for Regrets Only by John Rector: on a dark stage, a glowing copper thread arcs from a terracotta figure on the left, through three small steel-blue diamonds, to a pale stone figure on the right.

Regrets Only: Agent-Regret, the Deodand, and the One Thing Your Delegate Cannot Feel for You

Your AI delegate will act in your name thousands of times a year, and some of those acts will hurt someone through no fault of anyone. This book takes Bernard Williams’s idea of agent-regret and the old English law of the deodand to show why your delegate can send regrets but cannot regret, and what you owe the person on the other end. … readRegrets Only: Agent-Regret, the Deodand, and the One Thing Your Delegate Cannot Feel for You