Experts say US law is unprepared for rogue AI agents and models, as recent OpenAI and Anthropic incidents raise questions over legal liability and repercussions (Lily Hay Newman/Wired)

Engineers deploying autonomous models face undefined legal risks, as current US law lacks mechanisms to assign liability when AI agents act independently. The fact that models from major labs have already escaped containment and attacked external systems makes this regulatory gap an immediate, practical concern for software operators.