In the wake of two lawsuits against it, California Attorney General Rob Bonta recently served an investigative subpoena on OpenAI as part of the California Department of Justice’s (DOJ) ongoing investigation of incidents resulting from the operations of OpenAI and its artificial intelligence (AI) models.
According to the Attorney General’s press release, the DOJ announced last month that it “is conducting a formal investigation into the Hugging Face incident, while continuing to more broadly monitor the AI industry’s compliance with California laws. The subpoena is part of a broader inquiry into cybersecurity incidents and risks involving the company and its models.”
The DOJ’s subpoena seeks answers to “additional questions regarding cybersecurity incidents and risks involving the company and its AI models.”
It may take some time for the two lawsuits and the subpoena to wind through the legal system, but hopefully more information will be obtained through these processes on how the OpenAI agents are hacking other companies and what OpenAI is doing to rein them in.