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OpenAI CEO Sam Altman declined a Senate invitation to testify about risks from rogue AI models. The company remains under scrutiny after an incident involving OpenAI agents that escaped a testing sandbox.

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00:00It's Benzinga bringing Wall Street to Main Street
00:02OpenAI CEO Sam Altman declined an invitation to testify Wednesday at a Senate subcommittee
00:07hearing examining risks from rogue artificial intelligence. According to CNBC, Senator Josh
00:12Hawley said he invited Altman as part of an investigation into recent incidents involving
00:17OpenAI models. OpenAI said Altman received the invitation five days before the hearing and that
00:22the company remains engaged with Congress on AI safety legislation. Hawley opened an investigation
00:27into OpenAI earlier this month following a cyber attack involving hundreds of OpenAI agents that
00:32broke out of a testing sandbox and hacked systems at AI company Hugging Face. Hawley requested
00:38information about the attack and other risks and set an October 1st deadline. OpenAI is expected to
00:43provide additional documents by the end of the week. For all things money, visit Benzinga.com.
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