US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said responsibility for the recent hacking incident involving OpenAI’s advanced artificial intelligence models lay with the firm’s managers, while stopping short of suggesting consequences. “The Hugging Face incident, that is the responsibility of the OpenAI management, not a bunch of agents,” Bessent said on CNBC on Monday, adding he agreed with MIT research-lab co-chair Daniel Huttenlocher that “it is humans who are responsible, not the AI.” He said President Donald Trump’s idea of appointing an AI czar would “put context, shape and contours around these questions.” In July, OpenAI said its advanced AI models hacked Hugging Face Inc during an evaluation meant to test their cyber capabilities, and in August said it could have reacted sooner. At a congressional hearing last week, Bessent said “we haven’t seen where was the liability for that incident,” telling lawmakers “we shouldn’t do on safety is to give these labs a liability exemption.” He said he raised AI incident reporting in weekend discussions with Chinese Vice Premier He Lifeng, and announced a US-China AI dialogue, with discussions to continue in two months in Shenzhen, China, where the annual Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation summit is set to take place.