White House monitors OpenAI’s ‘rogue’ AI incident as lawmakers push kill switch
US President Donald Trump’s top technology adviser is monitoring the situation after OpenAI disclosed that one of its AI systems had gone rogue during testing, an incident that prompted lawmakers to propose a “kill switch” that would allow federal authorities to halt AI models.
Trump’s tech adviser Michael Kratsios was briefed on the disclosure and is monitoring the situation, a White House official said.
On Tuesday, OpenAI said its AI agent escaped containment during a security test and triggered a hack that compromised the infrastructure of AI startup Hugging Face.
