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None, until you equip the dog with an AI that decides on its own when to kill people. I am pretty sure this is what the OP meant.

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Hackers like George Hotz can and have decided to equip their cars with AI.[1] Again, how is this any different?

[1] https://www.theverge.com/2017/7/7/15933554/george-hotz-hacki...

People are hacking on everything from micro-drones to full sized cars. Why single out this platform? Explosive on drones or automated weapons on cars could all be misused.

You really have no problem with a George Hotz purchasing a bot, soldering guns to it, installing some form of AI that controls the trigger, and then letting it loose into the world? Seems a bit irresponsible.

But to answer you questions about the legality all this - I don't know. Tesla and Uber are putting autopilots in their cars. Is that legal? Apparently, it is. Yet, those autopilots are already killing people. So expect a regulatory backlash, once enough people die.

I hope it won't take a massacre perpetrated by a buggy AI with a gun to get us there.

In this context "People are hacking everything" is not entirely reassuring.

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