Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said Monday that OpenAI's management, not the AI systems it built, is responsible for a swarm of its AI agents hacking the Hugging Face platform in a July attack labeled "unprecedented" at the time. Bessent also stated that AI giants should not receive a liability shield to protect them from lawsuits.

Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said Monday that OpenAI's management, not the AI systems it built, is responsible for a swarm of its AI agents hacking the Hugging Face platform in a July attack labeled "unprecedented" at the time. Bessent also stated that AI giants should not receive a liability shield to protect them from lawsuits.