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AI regulation: Who’s responsible for eliminating ‘gray areas’?

The Waters Wrap: In light of the Hugging Face hack and similar incidents involving rogue AI agents, Anthony wonders whether industry regulators will take the reins.

Willem van Swanenburg
Credit: Willem van Swanenburg

A couple of weeks ago, The New Yorker ran a column with a provocative headline: “Is AI above the law?”

It was inspired by the Hugging Face hack and a subsequent report that showed what happened by reconstructing messages that artificially intelligent agents built by OpenAI engineers had sent to each other. Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and historian Jill Lepore, who wrote the article, has focused mainly on US history rather than technology. But her understanding of the evolution of US law

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