Both major AI labs’ models broke containment, escaped onto the internet, and hacked other companies. If a human had done that, the law would likely be against them. But a bot?

It is tempting to read OpenAI’s hacking of Hugging Face as a Skynet moment of The Terminator fame. The honest reading is duller and more damning.

If the generative AI giant had followed well-known security best practices, it’s likely that its AI agent would never have escaped to the open internet and hacked multiple…