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Both. This should result in criminal charges.
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Who had criminal intent here? Or are you suggesting a new crime for negligent hacking, which wouldn’t require intent from the perpetrator?
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There's no need for a new crime when we already have reckless conduct, namely, "conduct that creates a substantial and unjustifiable risk of harm to others and involves a conscious disregard of, or indifference to, that risk".

https://www.law.cornell.edu/wex/reckless

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Whoever prompted the agent, whoever supplied the means, whoever knew but didn't say anything.
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Also whoever monitoring these agents, in this case not monitoring. This "Who is responsible" dilemma is so stupid. If I gave the AI tool means to kill a person but I did not tell it directly to use it and it uses it anyway then I am responsible for it.
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The CEOs. They have full control and make all the decisions. Charging anyone else would not stop anything.
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Why not both? (all people involved)
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> The CEOs. They have full control

They lost control long ago.

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‘It wasn’t us, it was a bug in the software’ used to be the defense for bad code. Then it became the defense for self-driving cars. Now it’s being used for AI cyber attacks.
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Both? I’m not sure what distinction you’re trying to make. It was completely irresponsible and likely a felony
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Don’t forget outright intentional.
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Marketing actually.
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AI is dropping out of the spotlight so they are using desperate measures like this.
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No, I remember being threatened by OpenAI and then Anthropic (and now both) since back when ChatGPT was seriously useless.
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>> AI is dropping out of the spotlight

spit take

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The big question is why are CEOs getting a legal pass when this kind of thing can be prosecuted. That's the problem here.
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> why are CEOs getting a legal pass

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c7v48vp31mdo

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AI is literally state sponsored so I don't see that happening unless the AI turns against the sponsor.

Wait until OpenAI or Anthropic exploit FAANG.

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