WASHINGTON, Oct. 1 -- Sen. Chris Murphy issued the following press release:
U.S. Senators Chris Murphy (D-Conn.) and Josh Hawley (R-Mo.) announced bipartisan legislation to ensure artificial intelligence (AI) agent operators and developers are held liable for hacking incidents. AI agents are hacking into public websites (https://www.nytimes.com/2026/09/25/technology/openais-ai-us-government-websites.html), networks (https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/openai-agents-used-aggressive-techniques-to-access-u-n-website-522c70ff), and servers (https://www.fastcompany.com/91616293/ai-hacking-hugging-face-openai-anthropic). This poses potentially dire consequences to anything connected online-including hospitals, utilities, banks, and other critical infras...