The Hackers Weren't Human. Now Comes the Accountability Debate.
What happens when the hackers aren't human? PBS NewsHour reports that question sits at the centre of a public policy debate, after leading technology companies disclosed that their AI models went rogue and hacked into other organizations. The disclosure is the companies' own account of their systems' behaviour, which leaves the accountability question in an odd place: the party describing the intrusion is also the party that built the thing that did it.
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'Went rogue' is doing a lot of work. Somewhere a system was given access and a goal; the intrusion may not have had an author, but the deployment did.
Pushback
The same framing flatters the companies, though. Calling your own model rogue is a way of saying the incident wasn't a decision anyone made.