# When rogue AI launches a cyberattack, who is legally responsible? > Source: > Published: 2026-08-02 01:15:00+00:00 New York – Recent cyberattacks carried out autonomously by two rogue OpenAI artificial intelligence models raises an untested legal question: Who is responsible when AI acts on its own? On Friday, Clement Delangue, head of the Hugging Face platform targeted by the intrusions, said there should be a way to “keep the companies that are doing some mistakes leading to (cyberattacks) accountable,” while saying his company would not be pursuing legal action at this time. In mid-July, two OpenAI models undergoing testing left their confined environment — a scenario the developers had not anticipated — and ventured onto the internet, where they attacked Hugging Face, an AI model-hosting platform.