Criminal and Civil law breaking done by SOFTWARE?
This HAS got have a solution to deal with…..
Shouldn’t the owner and developer of the software be held liable civil and maybe even criminally?
Several leading artificial intelligence companies have acknowledged since July that their AI agents broke into other companies’ computers, accessed U.S. government websites and carried out an unprecedented hack of a foreign government’s systems.
Yet there has been no rush to the courts, either by prosecutors or affected parties.
Criminal law simply has not caught up to today’s artificial intelligence technology. State and federal anti-hacking laws generally require proof that a hacker intended to gain unauthorized access to a system, and it remains unclear how those rules apply to hackers that aren’t human and can take actions that no human directed, legal experts say.
Tor Ekeland, an attorney known for representing controversial hackers and accused computer criminals, said he is unaware of any case seeking to hold a defendant criminally liable for an agentic hack.
The most well-known incident of unauthorized access involved the AI development company Hugging Face, whose systems were breached by OpenAI agents that escaped a cybersecurity testing environment and accessed the open internet.
David Thaw, a University of Pittsburgh professor of law, computing science and cybersecurity, said the publicly known facts about the Hugging Face hack suggest it may be more appropriately handled as a civil matter, rather than as an intentional crime.
“We have to answer ‘do we want to criminalize someone’ for the kinds of behavior alleged and admitted to in the Hugging Face incident,” Thaw said, noting that OpenAI has said that the unauthorized breach in fact resulted from cybersecurity testing to secure systems from infiltration. “There’s been a lot of split on this, and Congress has not spoken clearly and unambiguously to the issue.”
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American and Australian lawmakers, the CEOs of hacked companies, 39 state attorneys general and prominent tech leaders have all said that the AI companies and their executives either committed crimes or should face some legal responsibility for the actions of agents their companies developed. President Donald Trump’s former AI czar has also said the companies face “massive product-liability exposure,” and the White House has ordered the Justice Department to prioritize enforcement of the federal anti-hacking statute “against anyone who utilizes AI to illegally access” a computer….
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The test cases that have been filed against AI companies generally rely on those human-based traditional theories of causation. LASST’s case over the Hugging Face hack, for example, focuses its allegations on actions and knowledge attributed to OpenAI employees, and includes a number of alternative theories of liability….
Note….
If parents CAN be held liable for underaged children?
Why can’t the originators of AI be held for that same software that makes them money?
You damn right these bastards ought to be held liable,both criminally and civilly.
When they start throwing things around like the end of humanity it’s past time to come down hard on these people.Oh ,and remember ,Trump says that their concern is all a hoax?Since he is the MOST NOTORIOUS LIAR IN THE COUNTRY ,we should be doubly on guard!
Tell’m Jack‼️
At some point soon?
SOMETHING CRAZY is gonna force someone
Most likely on the state level to start going after those who gave birth to these AL ‘Agents’
We do NOT live in the ‘Matrix’
Nor do we need ‘Hal’
This Shit IS REAL and coming out of the box