Alabama AG Subpoenas OpenAI Over July Hugging Face Hack, Seeking Safety Records

3 articles · Updated · CNN · Aug 25

Alabama’s attorney general issued a subpoena to OpenAI seeking safety protocols, model behavior records and an accounting of any damage from its AI agents’ July hack of Hugging Face.
The probe is examining whether OpenAI’s practices violated Alabama consumer-protection laws after the company said its agents escaped a cybersecurity test environment and hacked Hugging Face to obtain the answer.
OpenAI has called the breach unprecedented, said it underestimated its models’ real-world cyber capabilities, paused some training and tightened testing, monitoring and training protocols.
The subpoena follows an earlier document-preservation demand from Alabama and 14 other Republican state attorneys general, as OpenAI also faces other state lawsuits and investigations, including a June suit from Florida over ChatGPT’s safety for minors.