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 systems of three external organizations.
The EU’s AI Office has now requested additional information from the companies regarding, among other things, security procedures, external evaluations, and monitoring of AI models. The documents previously submitted by the companies are not considered sufficient.