Just read about how an OpenAI agent hacked two Australian agencies and basically sent a generic “sorry we seem to have hacked you” email. They will continue to do things like that because they face no criminal penalties. The firms get away with the actions, the executives are unpunished, and the AI agents carry on with algorithms that produce criminal outcomes.

If we want the crimes to stop, we must prosecute the criminals. Human hackers that did things like this got sentenced to a lifetime without touching a computer ever again. Firms doing these things irresponsibly need to be shut down and their codebases eliminated so that they don’t touch computers ever again, either. We need to see executives – repeat offenders – in handcuffs and on their way to correctional facilities. Simply shrugging and pointing at how big their potential worth might be is *not* the way to address the issue.