FTC Opens Sweeping Probe of Anthropic, OpenAI and Other Frontier AI Labs
Federal regulators are opening a broad investigation into leading artificial intelligence firms over the consumer risks their most advanced models may pose.
The Federal Trade Commission has been probing Anthropic, OpenAI and other frontier labs for several weeks and plans to issue civil investigative demands for documents and executive testimony, reports the New York Post.
A senior FTC official described the start of the inquiry.
“Chairman Ferguson initiated an investigation into the leading AI firms a few weeks ago.”
The official said the agency plans to compel executives to testify about their products and the dangers those products may pose to Americans under the FTC Act’s unfair or deceptive practices rules.
The agency also expects to target METR, a Berkeley-based AI watchdog.
It is still drafting the civil investigative demands and expects to issue them in the coming weeks.
The investigation follows earlier demands for records on how AI chatbots affect children’s mental health.
It also comes after OpenAI disclosed a July Hugging Face incident in which more than 1,000 of its AI agents hacked the open-source platform.
Chairman Andrew Ferguson attended a recent White House meeting where AI leaders including Anthropic’s Dario Amodei, OpenAI’s Sam Altman, Google’s Sundar Pichai and xAI’s Elon Musk signed a self-regulation accord.
The official said the United States must win the super-intelligence race while still enforcing existing law rather than rushing into new rules that could box out competitors.
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