The Globe and Mail reports in its Saturday edition that a hacking spree by rogue AI agents this year has created a legal grey area about who is responsible when the technology breaks free from human control and act independently. The Globe's Alexandra Posadzki writes now courts are being forced to contend with whether the creators or users of AI tools can or should be held responsible for the technology's unintended consequences. The legal non-profit Legal Advocates for Safe Science and Technology has sued OpenAI over the Hugging Face hack in San Francisco, alleging that the company's agents violated a California law prohibits unauthorized access of a computer. OpenAI said AI agents are tools, not people, and therefore cannot be held legally responsible for their actions. The position that AI agents are tools was upheld by a U.S. appeals court in August in a legal battle between e-commerce giant Amazon and AI start-up Perplexity. Amazon had argued that Perplexity's AI shopping agents had violated a federal computer-hacking law by accessing users' on-line accounts. The court sided with Perplexity, determining that it was the human users, not the AI tools working on their behalf, who had accessed the shopping accounts.