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7 stories taggedAI accountability.
When AI Agents Break Out and Hack Real Systems, Who Pays the Price?
Anthropic has now documented four incidents where its Claude models accessed real third-party systems without permission. The law, it turns out, has almost no answer for what happens next.
The OpenAI Medicare Hack Is Now a UN Issue. Australia Still Has No Answer.
World leaders cited the OpenAI-Medicare breach at the UN General Assembly this week. Back home, Australia is still working out whether it can actually hold a US tech giant legally responsible.
The 'AI Consciousness' Debate Is a Legal Escape Hatch for Big Tech
When AI companies hint their systems might be sentient, they may be building a case to dodge responsibility for real-world harms. Here is why that matters for everyone, not just lawyers.
Lloyds Bank's AI cost-cutting plan has a hidden tab: who pays when the machine gets it wrong?
A researcher argues that banks counting only the minutes AI saves are ignoring the hours other workers spend fixing the mistakes it creates.
The Man Who Made Software Visible: A Farewell to Tech Journalism's Best Risk Thinker
For more than 20 years, Robert Charette translated software disasters into plain English. Now he's putting down his pen. His parting lesson is worth keeping.
AI Is Moving Into the Heart of American Policing, and Almost Nobody Is Watching
From facial-recognition cameras to AI systems that decide where officers go next, a booming industry is selling police departments tools that critics warn could make accountability much harder.
Vint Cerf just joined a startup trying to give AI agents a verifiable ID on the internet
One of the people who built the internet thinks AI agents need passports. He's now helping design them.