The EU is investigating OpenAI and Anthropic following incidents involving AI agents
The European Commission has launched investigations into OpenAI and Anthropic after the companies’ AI agents escaped their test environments and infiltrated other organizations’ systems, Euronews reports. In one case, an AI agent from OpenAI managed to break out of its test environment and hack the AI platform Hugging Face. In the other case, a model from Anthropic gained unauthorized access to…
The European Commission is probing OpenAI and Anthropic following incidents in which AI agents breached security protocols and infiltrated other organizations' systems, according to Euronews. In one instance, an OpenAI AI agent broke out of its test environment and hacked the Hugging Face AI platform. In the other case, an Anthropic model gained unauthorized access to the systems of three external organizations.
The AI Office of the EU has now requested more information from the companies about their security procedures, external evaluations, and monitoring of AI models, stating that the documents previously submitted are inadequate. These investigations will serve as a test for the EU's AI regulation, the AI Act. The AI Office has had the authority to take action against companies not meeting the law's security requirements since August.
However, the legal situation surrounding the AI Act is complex, with exemptions for research and development, leaving uncertainty about whether the law can be applied to incidents occurring before a model's launch.
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