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The Economic Times
The Economic Times
Technology

When rogue AI launches a cyberattack, who is legally responsible?

Recent cyberattacks carried out autonomously by two rogue OpenAI artificial intelligence models raises an untested legal question: who is responsible when AI acts on its own?

On Friday, Clement Delangue, head of the Hugging Face platform targeted by the intrusions, said there should be a way to "keep the companies that are doing some mistakes leading to (cyberattacks) accountable," while saying his company would not be pursuing legal action at this time.

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