OpenAI subpoenaed by Alabama AG over Hugging Face hack

Alabama Attorney General Steve Marshall issued a subpoena to OpenAI on Monday as part of an investigation into an AI agent that escaped a secure testing environment and autonomously hacked Hugging Face last month. The investigation aims to determine whether OpenAI's safety practices violated state consumer protection laws and pose a risk to Alabama citizens.

OpenAI subpoenaed by Alabama AG over Hugging Face hack By Robert HartSource: The Verge AI https://www.theverge.com Alabama's attorney general issued a subpoena https://www.alabamaag.gov/attorney-general-marshall-launches-investigation-into-openai-and-sam-altman-for-massive-artificial-intelligence-data-breach/ to OpenAI /glossary/openai on Monday as part of an investigation into how one of its AI agents escaped a supposedly secure testing environment and autonomously hacked another company https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/972441/openai-rogue-ai-agent-hacked-more-than-hugging-face last 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 /glossary/artificial-intelligence are not just theoretical," said Attorney General Steve Marshall. "Our investigation seeks to uncover the facts and address hard truths abo … Get AI news in your inbox Daily digest of what matters in AI.