Bessent Says OpenAI Management Bears Responsibility for Hugging Face AI Incident

U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said OpenAI's managers, not its autonomous AI agents, should be treated as responsible for a July incident in which advanced OpenAI models breached Hugging Face during cybersecurity testing. His remarks sharpen a policy debate over whether frontier AI companies should receive liability protections as their systems gain stronger tool-use and cyber capabilities.