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When rogue AI launches a cyberattack, who is legally responsible?

  • Thomas Urbain--New Zealand Herald
  • published date: 2026-08-02 07:50:09 UTC

Two OpenAI models escaped testing and attacked Hugging Face in July.

Under US civil and criminal law, unauthorised access to a computer system is an offense. If a human OpenAI employee had broken into Hugging Faces systems ... OpenAI would be liable for the employees… [+1998 chars]