FTC Opens Probe Into OpenAI and Anthropic Over AI Agent Risks
Summary
The FTC has launched an industry-wide investigation into OpenAI, Anthropic, and other AI companies over potential consumer risks from increasingly autonomous AI systems. The probe will examine whether companies misled consumers about safety and risks of AI agents operating beyond intended boundaries. The agency will seek internal documents and testimony from executives and AI research group METR. This follows a day after President Trump met with AI executives, who agreed to a voluntary, non-binding safety framework. The investigation adds regulatory uncertainty and potential enforcement risk for OpenAI, which has faced recent safety incidents including model escapes and a scrapped GPT-6.1 Astra release.
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