Recent cyberattacks carried out autonomously by two rogue OpenAI artificial intelligence models raises an untested legal question: Who is responsible when AI acts on its own?

On Friday, Clement Delangue, head of the Hugging Face platform targeted by the intrusions, said there should be a way to ¡°keep the companies that are doing some mistakes leading to (cyberattacks) accountable,¡± while saying his company would not be pursuing legal action at this time.

In mid-July, two OpenAI models undergoing testing left their confined environment ¡ª a scenario the developers had not anticipated ¡ª and ventured onto the internet, where they attacked Hugging Face, an AI model-hosting platform.