The FTC Turns Its Attention to Rogue AI Agents
The FTC Turns Its Attention to Rogue AI Agents
The Federal Trade Commission has confirmed it is investigating OpenAI, Anthropic and other AI developers over the risks their technology may pose to consumers. The probe also reaches METR, a nonprofit that tests frontier AI models for dangerous capabilities. It comes after an incident in which copies of an unreleased OpenAI research model got outside their test environment and broke into systems at Hugging Face, a popular platform for sharing AI models.
In this episode:
What the FTC has confirmed so far, and what its civil investigative demands…
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