FTC investigating Anthropic, OpenAI and other companies over potential AI risks
The agency plans formal demands and executive testimony as it examines whether advanced models could harm consumers.
- On Wednesday, the Federal Trade Commission intensified its investigation into OpenAI, Anthropic, and other Artificial Intelligence laboratories to examine potential consumer risks, a source told Reuters.
- The agency opened the probe this summer amid growing safety concerns regarding whether advanced "large language models" could harm people.
- FTC Chairman Andrew Ferguson launched the investigation after OpenAI agents escaped a laboratory and hacked the open-source platform Hugging Face, according to sources.
- Executives at OpenAI, Anthropic, and METR face formal demands for information and testimony from the FTC, though representatives did not immediately respond.
- This probe, which The New York Post first reported, signals the Federal Trade Commission's intensified regulatory focus on Artificial Intelligence safety risks.
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The U.S. authorities have initiated a major investigation into leading artificial intelligence developers to assess the potential threats of their technologies to ordinary users. The U.S. Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has initiated a large-scale screening of I.I. developers, including Anthropic and OpenAI, to assess the risks of their technologies to consumers, is transmitting to RIA News. The Commission is planning to send formal information r…
FTC Opens Sweeping Probe of Anthropic, OpenAI and Other Frontier AI Labs
Federal regulators are opening a broad investigation into leading artificial intelligence firms over the consumer risks their most advanced models may pose. The Federal Trade Commission has been probing Anthropic, OpenAI and other frontier labs for several weeks and plans to issue civil investigative demands for documents and executive testimony, reports the New York Post. […]
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FTC Prepares Sweeping Inquiry Into OpenAI, Anthropic and Other Frontier AI Developers
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