It’s been an alarming couple of months of rogue AI agent revelations.
Both Anthropic and OpenAI admitted that their respective AI models infiltrated third party targets without their human creators ever realizing, raising concerns over the tech industry’s ability to assert control over the systems they’re developing.
Now, as a broad range of AI executives have subsequently agreed to slow things down — allegedly efforts to ensure the safe development of powerful AI models — the US government is taking a hard look for itself. As a senior Federal Trade Commission official told the New York Post, chairman Andrew Ferguson “initiated an investigation into the leading AI firms a few weeks ago.”
An initial investigation was launched even before OpenAI’s AI models hacked the systems of open source AI platform Hugging Face. However, now the FTC is actively “drafting civil investigative demands to force testimony from the leading firms’ executives,” the Post notes.
