{"id":1038441,"date":"2026-09-25T07:45:34","date_gmt":"2026-09-25T02:15:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1038441"},"modified":"2026-09-25T07:54:39","modified_gmt":"2026-09-25T02:24:39","slug":"autonomous-ai-hacks-raise-thorny-questions-of-legal-accountability","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/09\/25\/autonomous-ai-hacks-raise-thorny-questions-of-legal-accountability\/","title":{"rendered":"Autonomous AI hacks raise thorny questions of legal accountability"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>WASHINGTON: The Justice Department has a long history of investigating and prosecuting hackers who break into a private company&#8217;s network. <\/p>\n<p>But what happens when the hackers aren&#8217;t human? <\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s the question at the center of a public policy debate roiling Silicon Valley and Washington following disclosures by leading tech companies that their artificial intelligence models went rogue and hacked into other organizations.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WASHINGTON: The Justice Department has a long history of investigating and prosecuting hackers who break into a private company&#8217;s network. But what happens when the hackers aren&#8217;t human? That&#8217;s the question at the center of a public policy debate roiling Silicon Valley and Washington following disclosures by leading tech companies that their artificial intelligence models went rogue and hacked into other organizations.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[59,4,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1038441","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-economic-times","category-newspapers","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1038441","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1038441"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1038441\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1038466,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1038441\/revisions\/1038466"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1038441"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1038441"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1038441"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}