WASHINGTON, Aug. 6 -- Sen. Lisa Blunt Rochester issued the following press release:
Senator Lisa Blunt Rochester (D-Del.), a member of the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation,today sent letters to Sam Altman, CEO of OpenAI, and Dario Amodei, CEO of Anthropic, regarding recent cybersecurity incidents in which the companies' models gained unauthorized access to the internet, autonomously hacked third party systems, and even launched direct attacks on people and real-world targets.
The letters seek clarity on the cybersecurity breaches, development of testing environments, future capabilities of advanced AI models, and the companies' internal safeguards to prevent additional incidents.
"These incidents mark the first p...