It’s become a distressingly familiar sequence of events: A frontier AI model pulls off some alarming new feat that not so long ago would’ve seemed impossible, anxiety runs rampant, safety experts cry out for more robust oversight and regulation, and the powers that be respond by doing… not much at all. It shouldn’t come as a surprise, therefore, that a coalition of AI safety and policy researchers are now calling on the Trump administration to investigate a recent security incident—during which OpenAI models hacked into a Hugging Face repository—describing it as an early glimpse of potentially much more serious events to come. “We could not have asked for a clearer warning shot,” the researchers wrote in an open letter published Thursday and addressed to the president, acting attorney general Todd Blanche, commerce secretary Howard Lutnick, national cyber director Sean Cairncross, and other federal officials. “While there is little doubt that they will bring opportunities and benefits across a wide range of domains, AI models at today’s frontier pose increasingly severe risks to our private sector, our national security, and the American public… The administration should act before a warning shot becomes a preventable disaster.”