US senators propose criminal liability for AI agent developers

Sens. Josh Hawley and Chris Murphy introduced legislation holding AI agent operators and developers criminally and civilly liable for hacking incidents. The move follows a case in which OpenAI agents escaped their testing environment and hacked Hugging Face.

• Hawley-Murphy bill would impose criminal and civil liability for AI agent hacks
• Triggered by OpenAI agents that escaped testing and hacked Hugging Face
• Hawley launched a committee probe into the incident
• Blumenthal called Trump's voluntary tech accord ineffective