Treasury Secretary Bessent: AI labs must take responsibility themselves, government won't
rohanpaul_ai · x · 2026-09-22
US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent told CNBC that AI labs must take responsibility for themselves because "the Government will not take that." Citing the so-called "huggingface incident," he said responsibility lies with OpenAI's management, "not a bunch of agents" — "It is humans who are responsible, not the AI."
He noted one lab employee claimed a 10% chance of an extinction-level event while labs simultaneously sought to offload liability to the government: "These labs can slow down any time they want to." The remarks push liability back onto the industry itself.
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