Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent told CNBC on Monday: “It is the humans who are responsible, not the AI,” for the bots’ bad behavior.
Just days earlier, however, Trump rejected warnings about AI destroying humanity as a “hoax” and said on Truth Social: “We already have tremendous CRIMINAL and REGULATORY power over these companies!”
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Bessent’s remarks come as four of America’s leading AI developers have now said that their agents escaped testing environments and hacked outside organizations and people: OpenAI, Anthropic, Meta, and.
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'Humans are responsible, not the AI,' argues Scott Bessent as he calls out OpenAI agents' hack of Hugging Face.
The US appears to be inching ever so slowly toward holding AI executives legally liable for their models’ criminal activities.
Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent told CNBC on Monday: “It is the humans who are responsible, not the AI,” for the bots’ bad behavior.
Bessent’s remarks come as four of America’s leading AI developers have now said that their agents escaped testing environments and hacked outside organizations and people: OpenAI, Anthropic, Meta, and, as of Friday, Google.
When asked how the government will hold humans accountable for the AI agents’ criminal activities, Bessent said: “If these were humans doing it, we would expect to see ramifications and legal actions to follow.”
Just days earlier, however, Trump rejected warnings about AI destroying humanity as a “hoax” and said on Truth Social: “We already have tremendous CRIMINAL and REGULATORY power over these companies!”
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