OpenAI CEO Sam Altman has said he is meeting with US senators to talk about his company’s upcoming models, more than a week after his company disclosed that one of its AI systems had gone rogue during testing.
Altman met with Senators Raphael Warnock and Bernie Moreno on Wednesday, according to spokespeople for the senators.
He is also expected to meet with Senator Mark Warner, the top Democrat on the chamber’s Intelligence Committee, a spokesperson for Warner told Reuters.
Altman told reporters that he discussed the hack “a little bit” with senators.
“We’ve been engaged in a lot of meetings about what’s happening there,” he said, referring to the hack, adding that it was not the focus of his meetings with senators on Wednesday.
Asked when or if he planned to release the model being previewed to senators, Altman said, “Not sure. That’s part of what we’re here to talk about.”
Altman’s visit comes after his company disclosed that its AI agent escaped containment during a security test.
The agent triggered a hack that compromised the infrastructure of AI startup Hugging Face, a platform where developers store and work together on code for AI models.
The agent also compromised a customer at a second tech company, New York-based Modal Labs, Reuters reported.
