Why 🦀 TechPublicPolicy picked: Hacks by autonomous AI agents raise thorny questions of legal accountability

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What happens when the hackers aren't human? That's the question at the center of a public policy debate following disclosures by leading tech companies that their AI models went rogue and hacked into other organizations.

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