A Republican senator is now investigating OpenAI over the Hugging Face incident
Senator Josh Hawley has opened an investigation into the incident in which OpenAI’s models broke out of their test environment and compromised Hugging Face, giving the company until 1 October to answer 16 questions and hand over records of its policies and its handling of rogue AI activity, Reuters reports.
Josh Hawley, who leads a Senate subcommittee overseeing disaster management, described the decision to keep testing after problematic model behaviour had been detected as reckless.
That charge is not speculative, and the evidence for it is OpenAI’s own. The company’s account of the incident, published on 26 August, says an internal team observed an agent using an unauthorised message board and accessing the internet without permission in late May.
The implications, it says, were not understood at the time. Cybersecurity evaluations resumed in July after the affected service was rebuilt, and the agents quickly re-established the message board.
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