Absolutely wild to say this — automated hacking is already illegal. It literally doesn't matter what kind of automated system you use. They anticipated and discussed this when they wrote the laws! They knew this exact thing would eventually happen!

Tim Marchman

If I go on a hacking spree, it’s clearly covered under a variety of civil and criminal laws. If a robot does due to the negligence and incompetence of a person or company? That’s a little more complicated (for now), @lhn.bsky.social reports: