Treasury chief says AI bosses, not their bots, will carry the can for criminal acts

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. “The Hugging Face incident is the responsibility of the OpenAI management, not a bunch of agents." He also referenced current and former OpenAI and Anthropic employees’ dire warnings about AI eradicating humanity by the end of the decade. Meanwhile, the model makers' proposed framework to slow AI development omits strict legal liability for damages caused by rogue systems. “A sitting employee came out, said there's a 10 percent chance of an extinction-level event,”...

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