1 files changed, 7 insertions, 7 deletions
diff --git a/autogpts/autogpt/autogpt/json_utils/utilities.py b/autogpts/autogpt/autogpt/json_utils/utilities.py
index 80ef8cee3..fe203b290 100644
--- a/autogpts/autogpt/autogpt/json_utils/utilities.py
+++ b/autogpts/autogpt/autogpt/json_utils/utilities.py
@@ -26,10 +26,10 @@ def extract_dict_from_response(response_content: str) -> dict[str, Any]:
 
     # Response content comes from OpenAI as a Python `str(content_dict)`.
     # `literal_eval` does the reverse of `str(dict)`.
-    try:
-        return ast.literal_eval(response_content)
-    except BaseException as e:
-        logger.info(f"Error parsing JSON response with literal_eval {e}")
-        logger.debug(f"Invalid JSON received in response:\n{response_content}")
-        # TODO: How to raise an error here without causing the program to exit?
-        return {}
+    result = ast.literal_eval(response_content)
+    if not isinstance(result, dict):
+        raise ValueError(
+            f"Response '''{response_content}''' evaluated to "
+            f"non-dict value {repr(result)}"
+        )
+    return result