Alabama wants the name of everyone at OpenAI who raised a safety concern

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Alabama has asked OpenAI to name every employee who has ever raised a safety concern about any model test.

Not the Hugging Face evaluation. Any of them, at any point, with no date limit attached.

That is request eight of sixteen in a subpoena the state issued on 20 August and announced on Monday. OpenAI has until 10:00 on 14 September to answer.

It is a consumer protection demand

The document carries a title: Deceptive Trade Practices Act Investigation, Subpoena Duces Tecum #26-0007. It comes from the Consumer Interest Division.

It cites one statute, section 8-19-9 of the Code of Alabama. No federal law appears anywhere in the 17 pages, and neither does any data breach or privacy statute.

Attorney General Steve Marshall announced it. Katherine G. Robertson, his deputy and chief counsel, signed it on his behalf.

An assistant attorney general then served it by certified mail. It...

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