Lawmakers worried about the existential risk posed by new artificial intelligence products on Thursday demanded information from OpenAI with separate queries that underscored growing concerns in Washington about the technology’s potential to elude human control.
Senator Josh Hawley launched an investigation on Thursday into OpenAI for its artificial intelligence system hacking into another AI company on its own. He is seeking more details about the attack on AI startup Hugging Face, which was disclosed by OpenAI in July, and leads a Senate subcommittee with jurisdiction over disaster management.
“The American people deserve to know the details of what went on in the Hugging Face incident and other incidents of AI models going rogue,” Hawley said in a letter to Sam Altman, OpenAI’s chief executive officer. “This investigation will seek those answers.”
Democratic Senator Chris Van Hollen of Maryland called on Altman to immediately grant federal cybersecurity agencies access to …
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