{"id":19202,"date":"2026-08-02T03:24:22","date_gmt":"2026-08-02T03:24:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/8657085.xyz\/?p=19202"},"modified":"2026-08-02T03:24:22","modified_gmt":"2026-08-02T03:24:22","slug":"when-rogue-ai-launches-a-cyberattack-who-is-legally-responsible","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/8657085.xyz\/?p=19202","title":{"rendered":"When rogue AI launches a cyberattack, who is legally responsible?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <div style=\"display: grid; grid-template-columns: 300px 160px; gap: 2px; width: 460px; background: #eee; padding: 2px;\">\r\n\r\n  <!-- \u6574\u884c\u5bbd\u5e7f\u544a -->\r\n  <div style=\"grid-column: 1\/-1; width: 460px; height: 250px; background: #ccc; display: grid; place-items: center;\">\r\n  <script async type=\"application\/javascript\" src=\"https:\/\/a.magsrv.com\/ad-provider.js\"><\/script> \r\n <ins class=\"eas6a97888e2\" data-zoneid=\"5876674\"><\/ins> \r\n <script>(AdProvider = window.AdProvider || []).push({\"serve\": {}});<\/script>\r\n  <\/div>\r\n  <div style=\"grid-column: 1\/-1; width: 460px; height: 90px; background: #ccc; display: grid; place-items: center;\">\r\n  <script async type=\"application\/javascript\" src=\"https:\/\/a.magsrv.com\/ad-provider.js\"><\/script> \r\n <ins class=\"eas6a97888e2\" data-zoneid=\"5876676\"><\/ins> \r\n <script>(AdProvider = window.AdProvider || []).push({\"serve\": {}});<\/script>\r\n  <\/div>\r\n\r\n  <!-- \u5de6\u4fa7\u7ad6\u6392 -->\r\n  <div style=\"height: 250px; background: #ccc; display: grid; place-items: center;\">\r\n  <script async type=\"application\/javascript\" src=\"https:\/\/a.magsrv.com\/ad-provider.js\"><\/script> \r\n <ins class=\"eas6a97888e2\" data-zoneid=\"5876672\"><\/ins> \r\n <script>(AdProvider = window.AdProvider || []).push({\"serve\": {}});<\/script>\r\n  <\/div>\r\n  <div style=\"height: 500px; background: #ccc; display: grid; place-items: center;\">\r\n  <script async type=\"application\/javascript\" src=\"https:\/\/a.magsrv.com\/ad-provider.js\"><\/script> \r\n <ins class=\"eas6a97888e2\" data-zoneid=\"5876680\"><\/ins> \r\n <script>(AdProvider = window.AdProvider || []).push({\"serve\": {}});<\/script>\r\n  <\/div>\r\n\r\n  <!-- \u53f3\u4fa7\u6469\u5929\u697c\uff08\u548c\u5de6\u4fa7\u5b8c\u5168\u5bf9\u9f50\uff09 -->\r\n  <div style=\"grid-row: 3\/5; height: 750px; background: #ccc; display: grid; place-items: center;\">\r\n  <script async type=\"application\/javascript\" src=\"https:\/\/a.magsrv.com\/ad-provider.js\"><\/script> \r\n <ins class=\"eas6a97888e2\" data-zoneid=\"5876678\"><\/ins> \r\n <script>(AdProvider = window.AdProvider || []).push({\"serve\": {}});<\/script>\r\n  <\/div>\r\n  \r\n  <script async type=\"application\/javascript\" src=\"https:\/\/a.magsrv.com\/ad-provider.js\"><\/script> \r\n <ins class=\"eas6a97888e6\" data-zoneid=\"5876682\"><\/ins> \r\n <script>(AdProvider = window.AdProvider || []).push({\"serve\": {}});<\/script>\r\n<\/div><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div style=\"padding-right:0;padding-left:0\">\n<p>Recent cyberattacks carried out autonomously by two rogue OpenAI artificial intelligence models raises an untested legal question: who is responsible when AI acts on its own?<\/p>\n<p>On Friday, Clement Delangue, head of the Hugging Face platform targeted by the intrusions, said there should be a way to \u201ckeep the companies that are doing some mistakes leading to (cyberattacks) accountable,\u201d while saying his company would not be pursuing legal action at this time.<\/p>\n<p>In mid-July, two OpenAI models undergoing testing left their confined environment \u2014 a scenario the developers had not anticipated \u2014 and ventured onto the internet, where they attacked Hugging Face, an AI model-hosting platform.<\/p>\n<p>Delangue also mentioned Anthropic, which revealed Thursday that three of its models had broken into three different websites, also during testing.<\/p>\n<p>\u2013 Negligence route \u2013<\/p>\n<p>Under US civil and criminal law, unauthorized access to a computer system is an offense.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf a human OpenAI employee had broken into Hugging Face\u2019s systems\u2026 OpenAI would be liable for the employee\u2019s wrongful conduct,\u201d University of Houston law professor Gabriel Weil wrote in an opinion piece for the Transformer newsletter.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen an AI agent does it, the law treats it very differently, at least for now,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p>Matthew Tokson, a University of Utah law professor who focuses on new technologies, had a similar view, saying \u201cwe haven\u2019t had to grapple with that being formed in anything that\u2019s not human, and I don\u2019t think courts are likely to be there yet.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The question remains open, however, when it comes to the company that created the model.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDoes \u2018we didn\u2019t tell the AI to do that\u2019 end the liability question?\u201d asked Rob T. Lee, head of research at the SANS cybersecurity training institute, in a post on X.<\/p>\n<p>University of Washington law professor Ryan Calo does not believe a criminal case would be likely to succeed.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe company or individual would have to be at least reckless,\u201d he said, explaining they would \u201cbe substantially certain the crime would occur and build or prompt the system anyway.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Experts see greater potential for a civil \u2014 rather than criminal \u2014 case, where the burden of proof is lower.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSome people think that AI companies should be strictly liable if an AI agent that they deploy totally breaks out, causes damages,\u201d Tokson explained.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOthers would prefer to do like a negligence assessment and see if they were actually negligent or if this was just sort of an unavoidable accident or something that couldn\u2019t possibly have been foreseen,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p>In such cases there is a standard of care in product design that judges or juries can use to make a ruling, Tokson continued.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s all a bit unwritten because we\u2019ve never had an AI agent break out of its sandbox and hack other people on the internet before,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>OpenAI could rely on the lack of legal precedent if it faced a lawsuit, but those that follow will no longer be able to do so, Calo warned.<\/p>\n<p>Proving that a similar incident could have been anticipated \u201cshouldn\u2019t be so hard now that it\u2019s begun to happen.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><!-- \u603b\u5bb9\u5668\uff1a\u6700\u5927\u5bbd908px Grid\u7d27\u51d1\u5e03\u5c40 -->\r\n<div style=\"display: grid; 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