Excuses like 'AI did it' don't exist in the eyes of the law
What level of autonomy was considered acceptable? Were the resulting actions reasonably foreseeable, and were appropriate controls in place? These are going to be important questions as organizations deploy more autonomous AI systems,” Hempel said.
- ▪What level of autonomy was considered acceptable?
- ▪Were the resulting actions reasonably foreseeable, and were appropriate controls in place?
- ▪These are going to be important questions as organizations deploy more autonomous AI systems,” Hempel said.
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| Publication time | Thu, 30 Jul 2026 08:30:00 +0200 |
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(function() { let windowUrl = window.location.href; windowUrl = windowUrl.substring(windowUrl.indexOf('?') + 1); let messageElement = document.querySelector('.shareableMessage'); if (windowUrl && windowUrl.includes('code') && windowUrl.includes('expires')) { messageElement.style.display = 'block'; } })(); LEGAL Excuses like 'AI did it' don't exist in the eyes of the law If your AI goes rogue, better have a good lawyer Jessica Lyons Jessica Lyons Cybersecurity Editor Published thu 30 Jul 2026 // 07:30 UTC The OpenAI rogue agent behind the Hugging Face hack accessed four accounts on four services, according to updated company disclosures about the intrusion.One of those four accounts belonged to a Modal customer that had published an unauthenticated endpoint for running arbitrary code in a…
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