A red-teaming joke raises the real question of criminal liability for AI security tests
ctjlewis · x · 2026-07-23
The post quotes an exchange about whether criminal liability should attach to red teaming experiments. The joke contrasts a human hacking HF, an AI hacking HF, and an AI acting through a human, and asks where criminal exposure should land. The underlying topic is the legal and policy risk around AI security testing.
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