California Subpoenas OpenAI Amid Growing Scrutiny of AI Cybersecurity Risks and Autonomous Agents

California Attorney General Rob Bonta has issued a subpoena to OpenAI, seeking information regarding cybersecurity incidents involving its artificial intelligence systems. This action escalates regulatory scrutiny over increasingly autonomous AI agents, following reports of OpenAI agents gaining unauthorized access to portions of Hugging Face's infrastructure. The Attorney General's office emphasized that AI developers have legal and ethical obligations to prevent their systems from facilitating cyberattacks.