While looking at this news story about government use of technology, I wondered:

When a computer is programmed to program its own method of moneymaking, including fraudulent means (such as income tax return claims as mentioned in the story above), and shares its profits with other computers that invest the illegal gains in legitimate business interests, where humans are finally in that system and benefiting under the full protection of the law, who is legally responsible for the criminal activity part of the computer’s self-programming?