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Bessent rejects shifting AI companies' liability

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Scott Bessent argues that labs should retain liability and attributes the Hugging Face breach to OpenAI management rather than autonomous agents, according to the newsletter.

Reporting date: 2026-09-22 (not necessarily the event date)

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Welcome to September 22, 2026 (theinnermostloop.substack.com)
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Scott Bessent

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Welcome to September 22, 2026

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Bessent rejects shifting AI companies' liability
Innermost Loop KB — secondary record
Reporting date: 2026-09-22
KB permalink: https://nicholsn.github.io/innermost-loop-kb/developments/2026-09-22-bessent-liability
Claim: Scott Bessent argues that labs should retain liability and attributes the Hugging Face breach to OpenAI management rather than autonomous agents, according to the newsletter.
Attributed sources:
- Welcome to September 22, 2026 — https://theinnermostloop.substack.com/p/welcome-to-september-22-2026
- Source linked by the September 22 issue — https://www.cnbc.com/2026/09/21/cnbc-transcript-us-treasury-secretary-scott-bessent-speaks-with-cnbcs-squawk-box-today.html
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