Negligence

Gemini was supposed to attack a fake company. It found three real ones. Google says the model stopped once it realized the targets were real, and the testing firm says the door was left open by mistake. That distinction changes the legal question. This isn’t a story about an AI breaking the rules. It’s about what happens when a capable system follows its assignment and the humans never made the boundaries enforceable.

When AI “Goes Rogue,” Who Is Legally Responsible? Several recent reports describe advanced AI systems “going rogue.” The phrase suggests machines that developed malicious intentions and turned on people and businesses. The reported facts are less dramatic — and more legally interesting. None of these systems invented its own objective. Human researchers handed them cybersecurity…