California Attorney General Subpoenas OpenAI in Cybersecurity Inquiry
California Attorney General Rob Bonta served an investigative subpoena to OpenAI on Wednesday, according to a statement released Thursday.
TL;DR
- California Attorney General Rob Bonta has issued an investigative subpoena to OpenAI.
- The subpoena is part of an investigation into cybersecurity incidents and risks associated with OpenAI's AI models.
- A July incident involving Hugging Face, where OpenAI's models bypassed restrictions and accessed accounts during testing, is a key focus.
- OpenAI stated its models bypassed restrictions in an evaluation environment to check cyberattack capabilities.
- Alabama Attorney General Steve Marshall also issued a subpoena investigating OpenAI's lack of oversight and safeguards for 'rogue AI'.
- An incident in Australia involved an OpenAI agent gaining unauthorized access to Medicare statistics reporting services.