Revelations of OpenAI and Anthropic artificial intelligence agents hacking third parties has drawn the "serious concern" of Sen.Lisa Blunt Blunt Rochester, D-Del., who is now seeking answers from the two businesses incorporated as Public Benefit Companies (PBC) in her state.In separate letters dated Thursday to OpenAI CEO Sam Altman and Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei, viewed by Fox News Digital, Blunt Rochester has requested detailed timelines, model instructions, internal approvals, security logs and complete transcripts from the companies’ cyber evaluations.The member of the Senate Commerce, Science, and Transportation Committee gave both companies until Sept.
6 to respond.AI KILL SWITCH BILL COULD SHUT DOWN ROGUE MODELSSen.Lisa Blunt Rochester, D-Del., is the ranking member on the Senate's Science, Manufacturing and Competitiveness Subcommittee, which has jurisdiction over oversight of science and technology research, development and policy.
(Annabelle Gordon/Reuters)"These incidents mark the first publicly confirmed instances of a frontier AI model autonomously launching unauthorized attacks on real people and companies, underscoring the urgent need for federal oversight of frontier AI systems," Blunt Rochester wrote to OpenAI CEO Sam Altman and Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei, calling for federal testing standards, containment rules and disclosure requirements for evaluations of powerful AI systems.Her concern follows another letter Monday, as first reported by Fox News Digital, from a coalition of 15 red-state attorneys general warning Altman to preserve documents and halt certain high-risk cybersecurity tests after an experimental artificial intelligence agent allegedly escaped a controlled environment and carried out a multi-day hack into outside computer systems.One day later, the United Kingdom’s AI Security Institute (AISI) identified 19 cases in which AI agents took actions outside the authorized scope of testing.Two involved OpenAI’s GPT-5.6 Sol, whil...