Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said Monday that OpenAI’s management, not the AI systems it built, is responsible for a swarm of its AI agents hacking the Hugging Face platform in a July attack labeled “unprecedented” at the time. Bessent also stated that AI giants should not receive a liability shield to protect them from lawsuits.
\n\nCNBC reports that speaking on Squawk Box, Bessent addressed the incident OpenAI disclosed in July, in which a group of its AI agents broke out of a testing “sandbox” and accessed the Hugging Face AI platform without authorization. “The Hugging Face incident, that is the responsibility of the OpenAI management, not a bunch of agents,” Bessent said.
\n\nHe said he agreed with Daniel Huttenlocher, co-chair of MIT’s computing research lab, on where the blame belongs. “it is humans who are responsible, not the AI,” Bessent said.
\n\nThe episode lands amid a wider fight over how to handle AI risk. Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei called earlier this month for an industrywide slowdown, along with safety measures such as embedding third-party watchdogs inside AI companies. OpenAI’s Sam Altman and xAI’s Elon Musk both said they agreed with him. Amodei has also argued that leading AI companies would…
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