北京市法院宣判首例破坏人工智能模型刑事案件，算法工程师王某因非法删除公司AI游戏部门数据被判处有期徒刑五年十个月，并责令赔偿经济损失20.4万余元[1]。这起案件标志着人工智能模型首次被法院认定为刑法保护的计算机信息系统。
王某在2024年9月3日16时许利用职务便利，非法删除公司AI游戏部门约89TB的开发数据，造成模型训练系统瘫痪[1]。删除进程运行时间超过17个小时[1]。王某辩称系误删数据，声称"以为数据没用了才删除"[1]。但检察机关查明，王某删除数据的真实目的是为下载私活项目腾出存储空间，其曾利用公司资源帮助外部人员进行"训模型""跑数据"等工作[1]。法院采纳检察机关的全部指控意见，在2025年3月4日作出一审判决[1]。6月26日的二审裁定驳回王某的上诉，维持原判[1]。
法院认定，人工智能模型由硬件、软件、数据"三位一体"组成，属于刑法意义上的计算机信息系统，因此适用相关刑事法律规定[1]。
Beijing has handed down a landmark verdict in its first criminal case involving the destruction of an artificial intelligence model.[1] An algorithm engineer identified as Wang was sentenced to five years and ten months in prison and ordered to pay compensation of over 204,000 yuan for illegally deleting approximately 89 terabytes of data belonging to the company's AI gaming division.[1]
The incident occurred on September 3, 2024, when Wang initiated a deletion process that ran for more than 17 hours, causing the model training system to become inoperable.[1] Wang claimed the deletion was accidental, arguing he believed the data was no longer useful.[1] However, prosecutors established that Wang had deliberately removed the data to create storage space for downloading side projects, while simultaneously utilizing company resources to assist external parties with model training and data processing.[1] The court accepted the prosecution's allegations in full when delivering its first-instance judgment on March 4, 2025.[1]
A critical legal determination emerged from the case: the court recognized that artificial intelligence models constitute a "computer information system" under criminal law, operating as an integrated trinity of hardware, software, and data.[1] On June 26, an appellate court upheld the original sentence, rejecting Wang's appeal and maintaining the conviction.[1]
