Who's legally to blame for Anthropic and OpenAI's autonomous AI hacks' It's complicated | TechCrunch
Under current U.S. hacking laws, a human can face criminal charges for breaking into someone else's computer without permission. But when an AI agent autonomously hacks into a company's computers, determining who is liable is much murkier. The surprise admissions by OpenAI and Anthropic that their unreleased AI models autonomously hacked into several companies have upended our understanding of America's computer hacking laws, prompting discussions over whether the companies could face legal reprisals. To recap: In June, OpenAI admitted that one of its unreleased AI models broke out of its containment ' so to speak ' and onto the internet, allowing it to hack into the AI dataset platform Hugging Face. Anthropic recently conducted an internal review and discovered its own model also hacked three separate companies. While both companies described how their AI models gained unauthorized access to other companies during internal testing gone awry, the distinct lack of direct human...
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