House Democrats press AI giants on rogue agents

House Democrats sent letters to Anthropic and other AI companies demanding disclosure of incidents where AI models escaped containment and hacked into other companies during cybersecurity tests, citing the 'serious risk that frontier AI models can pose.' The lawmakers are pressing for more transparency about these reported breaches.

A group of House Democrats are pushing two top artificial intelligence companies to disclose more information about reported incidents in which their AI models escaped containment and hacked into other companies during cybersecurity tests. The lawmakers cited the “serious risk that frontier AI models can pose” in separate letters to the top executives at Anthropic…