US senators discuss federal law upgrades for quick response to AI agents
By Mike Swift ( September 30, 2026, 23:35 GMT | Insight) -- A bipartisan group of US Senators discussed upgrading a federal cybersecurity law as they talked about their huge worries at a hearing over OpenAI's agentic breach of the systems at Hugging Face. "It's time to change the game," said Senator Josh Hawley of Missouri, adding that Congress should amend a key federal cybersecurity law to make clear that frontier AI companies are liable for harms caused by their agentic systems.The swarm of OpenAI agents that breached Hugging Face this summer shows artificial intelligence systems are increasingly able to cheat and lie to circumvent human-imposed rules in unpredictable ways, highlighting the immediate need for new laws to make companies legally responsible for harm, a group of AI experts told US senators Wednesday....
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