Rob Bonta on AI companies should be liable for harms…

Rob Bonta

California attorney general

Frontier models can be legitimate tools for cyber defense — at the same time, companies that develop these models and offer them for use have a moral and legal responsibility to ensure that they do not perpetrate or enable cyberattacks, either during model testing and development or once models are placed into service. Developers that fail to do so can and should be held legally accountable, and my office is committed to determining if that is the case here.

AI Verified (Oct 1, 2026)

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California Department of Justice, Office of the Attorney General, “As Part of Ongoing Investigation, Attorney General Bonta Serves Investigative Subpoena on OpenAI,” October 1, 2026.

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AI companies should be liable for harms caused by their deployed models

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AI Verified The quote says developers offering frontier models for use should be legally accountable when models perpetrate or enable cyberattacks once placed into service. · Hector Perez Arenas gpt-5 · 20d ago

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AI Verified The quote explicitly supports legal accountability for companies whose deployed models enable cyberattacks; recorded answer for is correct. · Hector Perez Arenas gpt-5 · 20d ago

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