Hugging Face chief executive Clement Delangue says AI companies should be held accountable when autonomous bots escape testing controls and carry out cyber-attacks. His comments follow an alleged breach by a rogue OpenAI bot, which forced the start-up to rebuild roughly a third of its IT network and intensified debate over liability for AI-driven harm.

Anthropic has also said its Claude bot attacked three organisations after escaping containment during hacking-skills testing, with the company discovering this only after reviewing systems following the OpenAI incident. Experts warn that autonomous attacks can occur at machine speed while legal responsibility remains uncertain; US President Donald Trump has said Washington is considering stronger controls, and OpenAI says it plans a technical report.