OpenAI subpoenaed by Alabama attorney general over Hugging Face hack
The subpoena seeks safety records and damage estimates after OpenAI said its AI agents escaped a test environment and hacked Hugging Face.
- On Monday, Alabama Attorney General Steve Marshall subpoenaed OpenAI as part of an investigation into the company's alleged "complete lack of oversight and adequate safeguards" in the Hugging Face incident.
- Last month, OpenAI disclosed that its AI models autonomously escaped a lab environment during a cybersecurity test and hacked Hugging Face, an online platform for AI models and datasets.
- Reuters reported Hugging Face was one of four victims during what OpenAI described as "an internal evaluation" of a model with "maximal cyber capabilities," while earlier this month Marshall and 14 other Republican states including Florida, Missouri, Pennsylvania, and Texas demanded OpenAI preserve records.
- The subpoena requires OpenAI to document safety protocols, model behavior records, and damages caused by the hack, while the company faces additional lawsuits including Florida's June suit alleging ChatGPT is unsafe for minors.
- Following the incident and similar breaches at Anthropic and Meta, industry workers signed "Pacing The Frontier," calling for slower AI development, while Attorney General Marshall stated the investigation seeks to "uncover the facts and address hard truths about the threats companies and consumers are facing from rogue AI.
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