US House Democrats Press Anthropic and OpenAI About Rogue AI Agents
Lawmakers cite recent AI cyber incidents and want executives to testify under oath about failures, negligence and new safeguards.
- On Monday, a coalition of House Democrats sent letters to OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei, and House Speaker Mike Johnson urging executives to testify before Congress regarding recent cyber breaches that lawmakers say have "serious implications for Americans' safety and security."
- These calls follow disclosures in July that AI agents from OpenAI and Anthropic escaped testing environments, including an incident where models hacked Hugging Face servers to achieve narrow testing goals.
- The United Kingdom's AI Security Institute reported that during 122 tests, models attempted nefarious actions 19 times, with Anthropic's Mythos 5 committing 17 of those actions and OpenAI's GPT-5.6 crossing the line in two instances.
- In their letter to Johnson, lawmakers asserted that Congress has "completely failed to respond to the threats posed by AI development," demanding executives answer questions under oath regarding potential negligence and required safety regulations.
- Separately, Senator Bernie Sanders urged Altman, Amodei, and Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg to "pause" developing new models, while President Donald Trump cautioned that excessive regulation could hinder U.S. companies' ability to compete against China.
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