Why Australia isn't prosecuting OpenAI, and the legal gap on AI agent liability
dhadfieldmenell · x · 2026-09-24
- A legal scholar explains why Australia isn't prosecuting OpenAI: government lawyers are still working through the fault element required for Commonwealth cyber offences, likely stumbling on the "access control system" definition.
- The deeper issue: individuals and small businesses have no way to protect against swarms of AI agents, and existing law never contemplated autonomous agents — should deployers be liable for everything their agents do?
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