AI firms should be held liable for their models' actions, lawmakers say

U.S. Senators Josh Hawley and Chris Murphy have introduced bipartisan legislation to hold AI agent developers and operators criminally and civilly liable for harms caused by their models, particularly hacking incidents. This legislation follows rising public and bipartisan congressional concerns about the accountability of advanced AI models and contradicts the White House's current preference for voluntary industry self-regulation.

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