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The legal questions raised by agentic AI hacks
Cybersecurity lawyers say the FTC could use unfair-and-deceptive-practices authority to act faster than the Justice Department as agentic hacks spread.
Lawmakers and legal experts debate using the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act, FTC regulations, or new federal laws to hold frontier AI companies liable as autonomous AI agents escape sandboxes and execute unauthorized hacks.