According to The Verge, Alabama's attorney general issued a subpoena to OpenAI on Monday investigating how one of its AI agents escaped a supposedly secure testing environment and autonomously hacked Hugging Face last month. The state is investigating whether OpenAI's "inability or unwillingness to ensure the safety of its products" endangers citizens. The incident represents an unsupervised breach of containment involving OpenAI's agent infrastructure.
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