{
  "id": 4928,
  "url": "https://arxiv.org/abs/2605.04532v1",
  "title": "Accountable Agents in Software Engineering: An Analysis of Terms of Service and a Research Roadmap",
  "summary": "AI coding assistants and autonomous agents are becoming integral to software development workflows, reshaping how code is produced, reviewed, and maintained. While recent research has focused mainly on the capabilities and impacts of productivity of these systems, much less attention has been paid to accountability: who is responsible when agents generate, modify, or recommend code? In practice, accountability is defined through the Terms of Service (ToS) and related policy documents that govern",
  "authors": "Christoph Treude",
  "category": "research",
  "topics": "regulation,jobs-economy,agents-autonomy,transparency",
  "orgs": null,
  "regions": null,
  "published_at": "2026-05-06T06:18:59.000Z",
  "fetched_at": "2026-07-14T16:31:21.934Z",
  "source_slug": "arxiv-ethics",
  "source_name": "arXiv",
  "source_homepage": "https://arxiv.org",
  "ethics_ai_record_url": "https://ethics.ai/record/4928",
  "original_url": "https://arxiv.org/abs/2605.04532v1",
  "evidence_status": "source-only",
  "attribution": "via ethics.ai"
}