California Attorney General Rob Bonta served an investigative subpoena to OpenAI on Wednesday, according to a statement released Thursday.
The demand is part of the California Department of Justice’s ongoing investigation into incidents arising from OpenAI’s operations and its artificial intelligence (AI) models, including cybersecurity incidents and other risks.
“Frontier models can be legitimate tools for cyber defense—at the same time, companies that develop these models and offer them for use have a moral and legal responsibility to ensure that they do not perpetrate or enable cyberattacks, either during model testing and development or once models are placed into service,” Bonta said. …