By Courtney Rozen<\/p>\n
WASHINGTON, Aug 10 (Reuters) – A coalition of U.S. House Democrats is calling on Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei and OpenAI CEO Sam Altman to explain \u200chow their AI systems escaped containment during a security test, adding that Congress \u200cshould hold hearings about the incidents, according to letters the lawmakers sent to the companies on Monday.<\/p>\n
OpenAI and Anthropic \u200bdisclosed in July that their AI agents had broken out of their environments and hacked into the systems of other companies during cybersecurity tests.<\/p>\n
Twenty-nine lawmakers, led by Representatives Greg Casar and Doris Matsui, pressed OpenAI to explain how its AI agents are monitored during testing, and whether the \u200crogue models evaded the company’s safety \u2060controls. The lawmakers cited a Reuters report that said there were cases when monitoring systems had been disconnected during earlier tests of the OpenAI \u2060models. In a separate letter, 22 lawmakers asked Anthropic to detail any safety protocols that the company has implemented since its agents broke into the systems of three companies.<\/p>\n
“These deeply troubling cybersecurity \u200bincidents could \u200bhave serious implications for America’s national security,” the \u200blawmakers wrote in their message to \u200cAnthropic.<\/p>\n
The letters, released on Monday, are part of a widening debate in Washington over how aggressively to police a fast-moving AI industry that has largely operated without new federal standards. Lawmakers have released a range of proposals that have not yet moved forward, including a bill that would require developers of the most powerful AI models to submit them for independent security \u200caudits.<\/p>\n
U.S. President Donald Trump’s administration has said very little \u200bin public about the Anthropic and OpenAI rogue agents. \u200bThe president on Friday criticized proposals \u200bcoming out of Congress to govern AI, saying that lawmakers want to \u200cregulate the industry “out of business.”<\/p>\n
Liberal Senator Bernie \u200bSanders on Monday separately \u200bcalled on Altman, Amodei and Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg to “pause” developing new models. He referenced a letter signed by more than 1,100 tech company employees urging the U.S. \u200bgovernment to support an international \u200ceffort to develop tools for managing the pace of advanced AI development. Amodei \u200bsigned that letter, as did staff from Meta Platforms, Anthropic, OpenAI and Alphabet’s \u200bGoogle.<\/p>\n
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