Comment by Cthulhu_

AI agents are not legal entities, they are software. If I write a virus and it "escapes confinement", I will personally be held liable for any damage it causes. This also applies to AI, no matter how the companies responsible for them try to anthromorphise them and distance themselves from the actions and consequences that the AI agents perform.

AI agents may have hacked Hugging Face, the Australian government, and who knows what else but the company behind it can face the legal consequences and cough up for the damages.