The legal questions raised by agentic AI hacks

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There may not be a clear-cut answer under existing laws and regulations. The conversation has moved from policy and industry chatter to the floor where the future of liability will be determined.

Speaking about the Hugging Face hack at a Senate hearing this week, Georgetown University law professor Paul Ohm summarized the argument. “If you take any of the lengthy reports that have summarized what happened at OpenAI in July and August, and you simply search for the words ‘AI agent’ and you replace them with the words ‘OpenAI employee,’ the document you would be left with would read like a criminal indictment containing the defendant’s own confession of guilt,” said Ohm.

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• “If you take any of the lengthy — reports: that have summarized what happened at OpenAI in July and August, and you simply search for the words ‘AI agent’ and you replace them with the words ‘OpenAI employee,’ the document you would be left with would read like a criminal indictment containing the defendant’s own confession of guilt,” said Ohm