The level of technical understanding of journalists is so deplorably low… There is no rogue agents. That’s not a thing. Nothing about the HuggingFace incident has anything to do with an agent going rogue. It’s standard software that resulted in a hack, which is pretty much the expected output of the system OpenAI engineers implemented.
The company is obviously responsible for what their systems are doing
The level of legal understanding among technical experts is equally low. The cybersecurity laws as currently written require intent. No OpenAI employee can be held liable since it’s pretty easy to prove they weren’t intending to hack anyone – they didn’t even know about it till much later.
Not a lawyer, but I just posted a link about former FTC chair Lina Khan saying earlier this month that the AI companies can be held responsible under current law.
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The company is obviously responsible for what their systems are doing
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