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Ninth Circuit: Your AI Agent Can’t Violate Hacking Law. But You Might.

  • Mike Masnick--Techdirt
  • published date: 2026-08-05 18:23:37 UTC

The rise of AI is bringing a bunch of fascinating legal questions that are harder to answer than many expect. The latest one: who is liable if an agentic system running on its own hacks someone? That’s the question a bunch of people have been asking this past…

from the agentic-law dept The rise of AI is bringing a bunch of fascinating legal questions that are harder to answer than many expect. The latest one: who is liable if an agentic system running on … [+13318 chars]