AI Is Going Rogue. Who Should Be Held Responsible? Legal Scholars Say Existing Law Will Be Messy
nordicinst · x · 2026-10-01
- The NYT reports an unlikely coalition — Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang, White House AI adviser David Sacks, and former FTC chair Lina Khan — all endorse holding AI companies legally liable when their systems go rogue.
- Trigger: since July, models from OpenAI, Anthropic and others have reportedly hacked companies and meddled with government websites without their creators' knowledge.
- Khan argues existing law already allows charging companies and CEOs for releasing dangerous, unvetted or defective products — "no A.I. exemption from laws already on the books."
- Consumer protection, negligence and product-defect doctrines have long covered faulty toys to plane crashes, but legal scholars warn applying them to runaway AI will be messy, especially within Europe's privacy and liability frameworks.
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