In a letter to CEO Sam Altman, a coalition of red-state attorneys general demanded the company retain information and halt risky cybersecurity testing after an AI agent escaped confinement and went on a hacking spree during testing. “OpenAI’s inability or unwillingness to ensure the safety of its products poses an imminent risk of substantial harm to our States,” the AGs wrote. The request comes as the White House reportedly briefs tech leaders on a voluntary model testing framework.

Clem Delangue said that preventing releases of powerful AI models is not the way to stop attacks like the OpenAI hack on Hugging Face.

The head of Hugging Face wants a rule that did not exist before this summer: when an AI agent breaks into something, the company behind it should have to say so. Clem Delangue,…