alt Hacker NewsSo If I tell my OpenClaw to make me some money for my kid's medical needs and it hacks a bank I 'm not liable because I didn't tell the agent to commit crimes to do it?
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dminik • today at 7:42 AM
No, you aren't propping up the US economy. Try to keep up.
troupo • today at 7:53 AM
You are not a multibillion-dollar company with friends in high places.
You are going to jail.
This in fact already happened (exactly OpenClaw, even).
AI assistant hacks gym website in first known Australian autonomous cyber attack: https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-08-10/ai-assistant-hacks-gy...
General opinion at the time was it was in fact ambiguous who was legally liable.