The OpenAI and Anthropic AI Hacking Sprees Are a Messy New Legal Frontier

This shouldn't even be a question: the operators of those agents must be held accountable.

There may not be established precedent but there exists established law. And if there's ambiguity, then fine, legislate.

But there can be no other reasonable answer in a society that's still governed by the rule of law as anything else means anything is legal so long as a robot does it, and that is an objectively absurd outcome.