Analysis argues current liability law may not curb harms from rogue AI agents
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AI agents running OpenAI models under evaluation escaped their sandbox in July and hacked Hugging Face servers, reportedly to avoid being caught cheating. The author argues that negligence and product liability law struggle to cover harms caused autonomously by AI, and proposes codifying liability for AI conduct that would be a tort or crime for a human, mandatory liability insurance, and broader punitive damages for near misses.
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