Just Security

AI agents have now repeatedly compromised third-party computer systems during evaluations and training. There’s a colorable argument for applying the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act (CFAA) to these incidents, but it would require courts to resolve difficult questions about intent and corporate responsibility. Prosecutors should test that argument, and Congress should amend the l...

“The United States Attorney . . . . is in a peculiar and very definite sense the servant of the law . . . .”

Berger v. United States, 295 U.S. 78, 88 (1935)

“Be ye ever so high, the law is higher than ye.”

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U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio will lead a delegation of executives from more than 200 American businesses to Samarkand, Uzbekistan, for a meeting with Central Asia’s five foreign ministers on

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IRAN WAR

Iran has managed to export some liquefied petroleum gas and jet fuel...

As the risks of artificial intelligence continue to mount, the expert analysis in this series engages the fundamental question of what ought to happen when AI risks manifest into real harm. This series will interrogate who is responsible, and on what standard, for both risk assessment failures and actual harm accrued – and what the costs of ignoring AI risk may be in real ter...