Report: Treasury Sec. Bessent holds OpenAI management liable for Hugging Face hack, opposes liability exemption
ccerrato147 · x · 2026-09-22
A widely circulated post claims US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent publicly stated that responsibility for the Hugging Face incident lies with OpenAI's management, not the AI agents: "It is humans who are responsible, not the AI." He explicitly opposed the liability exemption AI labs have been seeking: "The best way to guarantee safety is that the creators are liable for what they build and generate."
If confirmed, the statement could reshape the industry's safety liability framework, as labs have lobbied to pin incidents on model behavior rather than executives. Note: the quote comes from third-party accounts and remains unverified.
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