If there's one thing I've learned from publishing this story is that there is a very, very, very wide chasm between what the law says about all this... and what people *think* the law says and/or *should* say.
After Anthropic and OpenAI both admitted to their AI models hacking other companies, Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai (npub1xvw…ksg7) and I wanted to find out: Who is legally to blame when an autonomous AI agent hacks something? Lawyers say it's really complicated; one called it "uncharted territory."
Read more: https://techcrunch.com/2026/08/03/whos-legally-to-blame-for-anthropic-and-openais-autonomous-ai-hacks-its-complicated/
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