Senator Josh Hawley has given OpenAI until 1 October to answer 16 questions about the Hugging Face incident, calling it reckless that testing continued after the behaviour was detected.

The breach won’t be the last – or the most dangerous – of its kind. We need an agency capable of full investigations into AI incidents

"The American people deserve to know the details of what went on," wrote Sen. Josh Hawley.

In a September 9 letter to OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, Senator Josh Hawley said the investigation was launched in light of "new, disturbing evidence" surrounding the incident and…

The investigation comes amid intense bipartisan backlash against frontier AI models, which reached a new high this week.