From the even-a-stopped-clock-is-right-twice-a-day department:
FTC Chair Andrew Ferguson told Reuters that he thinks that companies should be liable for chatbot harms. At that time, Ferguson emphasized that he was tired of people anthropomorphizing AI tools. He insisted that, “if someone tells a tool to do something, and the tool does it, I don’t think we would say, ‘Oh, what do we do about the tool?’”
Yep. If you run software of any kind, and the software commits a crime, it’s not the software that is liable. This is such an easy thing judicially, all this fucking around is politically motivated. If anyone else had exploited vulnerabilities in computer systems, they would already breathe sieved air. The same should happen to the execs at OpenAI and Anthropic.