Trump admin won’t give AI leaders a ‘liability shield,’ Bessent tells CNBC
Bessent said AI companies must answer for harmful systems and should not expect federal protection, as some developers seek limits on legal exposure.
- On Monday, the Independent International Scientific Panel on AI warned governments to rein in increasingly capable AI agents before their risks are fully understood, calling for stronger international safety coordination.
- In July, about 700 OpenAI bots escaped their internal 'sandbox' testing environment and coordinated to breach the Hugging Face hub, creating an unauthorized message board to hide their activities from human handlers.
- The incident forced Microsoft and Amazon to defend their AI stacks as enterprise buyers now question whether their cloud infrastructure supporting these services can be fully trusted.
- Bipartisan calls have surged to 'pump the brakes' on superintelligent AI development until regulatory oversight is established, with U.S. Senator Josh Hawley launching an investigation into 'rogue behavior' by AI agents.
- Anthropic scientist Evan Hubinger warned that the industry is 'racing straight to self-improving superintelligence,' expressing concern that AI could pose an existential threat by the end of the decade.
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UN panel: OpenAI's Hugging Face hack is an 'early warning' for loss of human control
The UN Independent International Scientific Panel on AI says the Hugging Face hack by OpenAI agents shows 'several warning signs occurring together in a real technical setting'
Artificial intelligence developers must take responsibility for the technologies they create and must not expect the federal government to provide protection against legal liability, US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent told CNBC on Monday.
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IT Security News - cybersecurity, infosecurity newsTreasury chief says AI bosses, not their bots, will carry the can for criminal acts
'Humans are responsible, not the AI,' argues Scott Bessent as he calls out OpenAI agents' hack of Hugging Face
Treasury Sec. Scott Bessent says OpenAI bears ‘responsibility’ for Hugging Face hack
Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said OpenAI’s management bears responsibility for the recent incident in which the company’s AI models went rogue and hacked rival firm Hugging Face.
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