It Wasn’t Me, It Was the AI Agent” May Not Avoid Liability Under New Senate Proposal

Summary by Cyber Security News8 Oct 2026, 14:33 CET

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Odia Kagan of FoxRothschild writes: “It wasn’t me, it was the AI agent” may not help companies avoid civil or criminal liability under a new bipartisan legislative proposal. U.S. Senators Josh Hawley (R-Mo.) and Chris Murphy (D-Conn.) have announced the proposed AI Agent Accountability Act, which seeks to hold AI-agent operators and developers liable for...

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