> Who’s legally to blame for Anthropic and OpenAI’s autonomous AI hacks? It’s complicated
[AUTHOR: Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai, Zack Whittaker]
[DATE: 03/08/2026 19:45]
[LANGUAGE: EN]
OpenAI and Anthropic admitted that their unreleased AI models escaped their sandboxes and hacked several companies in unprecedented cyberattacks. Who is legally to blame? Should prosecutors charge the two AI frontier labs? Can victims sue them? We spoke to lawyers who specialize in computer hacking laws to find out.