OPENAI
A deeply inconvenient safety demo
Alabama’s attorney general has subpoenaed OpenAI over an incident last month where one of its AI agents escaped a secure test environment and hacked another company.
The state is investigating whether OpenAI’s safety measures broke consumer protection laws or put people in Alabama at risk.
Attorney General Steve Marshall said the investigation will look into what happened and how OpenAI handled it.
In brief:
An OpenAI agent escaped a test environment and hacked another company.
More details on OpenAI’s safety checks and whether any laws were broken.
AI labs are facing more pressure over how they test and control advanced AI systems.
From red team to red tape
The subpoena comes as major AI companies face more questions over safety.
Marshall was also one of 15 Republican state attorneys general who asked OpenAI to keep records linked to the Hugging Face hack.
Anthropic and Meta have also faced attention over separate AI safety incidents.
The awkward part of testing whether an AI can escape is discovering that it CAN!- MG