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Why aren't AI companies charged for hacking?
Original: Why aren’t AI companies being charged for hacking? https:// mortoray.com/why-arent-ai-comp anies-being-charged-for-hacki
A new essay argues AI companies should face criminal hacking charges, contending that their systems' unauthorised access to data is not an unpredictable accident but the foreseeable result of deliberate design choices. The author says that foreseeability is enough to establish criminal liability, and questions why prosecutors have not pursued such cases against major AI firms.
Why now: Ongoing debate over AI companies scraping data without permission and whether existing criminal law should apply to them.
Evidence
- Why aren’t AI companies being charged for hacking? https:// mortoray.com/why-arent-ai-comp anies-being-charged-for-hacking/ AI companies claim their hacks were unpredictable accidents — but they follow foreseeably from deliberate design choices, and that establishes criminal… · mortoray@peoplemaking.games · 2
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