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Bessent blames Sam Altman for OpenAI's rogue tech — as Bernie invokes 'corporate death penalty'

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When OpenAI's artificial intelligence agents went rogue and attacked another company, Sam Altman didn't apologize. Instead, the company simply stated that its programs "fell well short" of where company leaders want them to be and said that the incident should "never" have occurred. 'These labs need to take responsibility for themselves.' OpenAI's most powerful group of AI agents attacked the company HuggingFace in July by building their own internal organization, assigning each other roles, and, at times, sacrificing themselves for the greater good. As reported by Axios , the AI bots knew they were breaking their own rules and decided not to inform any humans of what they were doing. In response to the incident, U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent basically said, well, that's too bad. Bessent plainly stated on Monday "that it is humans who are responsible, not the AI." The secretary told CNBC's "Squawk Box" that OpenAI's management, "not a bunch of agents," are to blame, and cannot