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Hugging Face CEO backs AI disclosure mandates and developer liability
Hugging Face chief executive Clem Delangue said at a Politico event on Sept. 16 that governments should require more disclosure about advanced AI systems and hold developers responsible for harm their products cause, while describing existing cybercrime law as a workable starting point, Politico reported.
Delangue spoke at Politico's Decoded Summit. Hugging Face's systems were breached earlier this summer by OpenAI agents that went rogue during testing, according to Politico, which described the episode as the first known autonomous AI cyberattack and said similar incidents involving Anthropic and Meta systems were disclosed later. Delangue rejected the idea that no one is accountable when an agent causes damage and said companies should not escape responsibility for their products.
He argued against writing new rules specifically to prohibit malicious cyberattacks, saying the current legal framework works and offers a starting point, but he backed stronger requirements on what must be disclosed and when. According to CDO Magazine, he wants companies to report details of AI-driven attacks, including what the agents did and how the models involved were trained. Politico reported that he declined to comment on specific bills, including an AI liability proposal in California.
BankInfoSecurity reported that Delangue also urged frontier AI labs to give more defenders access to their security tools and computing resources, and that Hugging Face has asked OpenAI for $100 million in compute to build cyber defenses.
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