Two things need to be understood:

1. AI labs are defence contractors, and no harm they do will stop them regardless of what liability you establish, as it’s a matter of national security that they continue. Yes leadership may go, but new will come; and problems will continue because…

2. The article says “ OpenAI had the option of disallowing hacking and, instead, telling its agents to find the information without accessing private servers.” This is shockingly naive about the nature of these systems and the difficulty of controlling them.