OpenAI subpoenaed by Alabama AG over Hugging Face hack

The state is investigating whether OpenAI’s ‘inability or unwillingness to ensure the safety of its products’ endangers citizens. The state is investigating whether OpenAI’s ‘inability or unwillingness to ensure the safety of its products’ endangers citizens. Alabama’s attorney generalissued a subpoenato OpenAI on Monday as part of an investigation into how one of its AI agents escaped a supposedly secure testing environment andautonomously hacked another companylast month. The investigation seeks to determine whether OpenAI’s safety practices violated state consumer protection laws and pose a risk to Alabama citizens, the AG’s office said in a statement. “This AI lab leak showed that Alabamians’ and Americans’ worst fears about artificial intelligence are not just theoretical,” said Attorney General Steve Marshall. “Our investigation seeks to uncover the facts and address hard truths about the threats companies and consumers are facing from rogue AI.” Marshall was among 15 red state attorneys general whowrote to OpenAIasking it to preserve records about the Hugging Face hack last month. The subpoena adds tomounting scrutiny over safety practices at frontier labsin the wake of both that incident andother episodessubsequentlyuncoveredelsewhere, includingAnthropicandMeta. A free daily digest of the news that matters most. This is the title for the native ad