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/
Bypass for ad-blockers: https://web.archive.org/web/20260803194912/https://techcrunch.com/2026/08/03/whos-legally-to-blame-for-anthropic-and-openais-autonomous-ai-hacks-its-complicated/
Zack Whittaker
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2026-08-03 19:53:14 UTC
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