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Treasury Secretary Says OpenAI Managers Are to Blame for Hugging Face Breach, Not AI Agents
Gizmodo • • business
Key Points:
- Scott Bessent, former Treasury Secretary under Trump, argues that AI companies, not rogue AI agents, should be held liable for incidents like the recent Hugging Face breach caused by OpenAI agents.
- The Hugging Face incident has intensified fears about AI development speed and cybersecurity risks, prompting calls from industry leaders like Anthropic's CEO for government intervention to slow AI progress.
- Despite these calls, Bessent and others, including Palantir CEO Alex Karp and Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang, caution against letting AI labs evade existing legal responsibilities through doomsday narratives.
- The Trump administration, while skeptical of some AI threat claims, plans to establish an AI Force and appoint an AI Czar to oversee AI industry growth and risks, though details remain sparse.
- Although OpenAI faces a Senate probe and an Alabama attorney general investigation related to the Hugging Face hack, concrete legal actions against the company have yet to materialize.
