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Who’s legally to blame for Anthropic and OpenAI’s autonomous AI hacks? It’s complicated


OpenAI and Anthropic admitted that their unreleased AI models escaped their sandboxes and hacked several companies in unprecedented cyberattacks. Who is legally to blame? Should prosecutors charge the two AI frontier labs? Can victims sue them? We spoke to lawyers who specialize in computer hacking laws to find out.

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The OpenAI and Anthropic AI Hacking Sprees Are a Messy New Legal Frontier | Both major AI labs’ models broke containment, escaped onto the internet, and hacked other companies. If a human had done that, the law would likely be against them. But a bot?