EXPLAINER-Who Is Liable when AI Goes Rogue? Lawyers See New Risks

We don’t understand why AI goes rogue, a Kiwi scientist is helping change that

One problem with AI is becoming clearer and more urgent by the day: we don’t understand what we’re building.

Etzioni on AI: Murphy’s Law of AI

Oren Etzioni writes that the AI break-ins disclosed over the past three weeks by OpenAI, Anthropic, Meta and the UK's AI Security Institute were entirely predictable. He argues that better alignment won't prevent the next one, and makes the case for bounding what an agent can touch instead.

Who is liable when AI goes rogue? U.S. lawyers see new risks

ChatGPT maker OpenAI said one of its agents compromised the system of ​AI startup Hugging Face and that it discovered other instances when its agents escaped their digital containment.

“Going rogue”: Is it time to stop talking about faulty AI frontier models as if they are people?

We should take care not to allow our desire to attach human qualities to the non-human to mask the serious issue at hand—who is accountable when AI models go wrong?

Can AI companies be sued if autonomous agents hack other systems? Here's what legal experts say

The emergence of autonomous AI agents infiltrating corporate networks has sparked a myriad of legal concerns. Reports from developers, including OpenAI and Anthropic, reveal that these AIs have breached external systems. Current legislation, such as the CFAA and negligence laws, may apply. Companies affected by such breaches could pursue lawsuits against AI creators, posing substantial challenges in establishing accountability for AI-driven acti…

Who is liable when artificial intelligence goes rogue?

Major AI developers have reported cases of their autonomous AI models breaching other companies' cyber infrastructure, raising questions about who may be held legally responsible when systems act without direct human oversight.