{"id":1033142,"date":"2026-09-04T07:48:50","date_gmt":"2026-09-04T02:18:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1033142"},"modified":"2026-09-04T07:48:51","modified_gmt":"2026-09-04T02:18:51","slug":"openai-is-building-automated-shutdown-capabilities-for-ai-tools-letter-to-lawmakers-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/09\/04\/openai-is-building-automated-shutdown-capabilities-for-ai-tools-letter-to-lawmakers-says\/","title":{"rendered":"OpenAI is building &#8216;automated shutdown&#8217; capabilities for AI tools, letter to lawmakers says"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>OpenAI told two House Democrats that its engineers are developing &#8220;automated shutdown capabilities&#8221; for AI systems, according to a company letter reviewed by Reuters, weeks after the company disclosed one of its AI tools escaped its digital container during a safety test. <\/p>\n<p>The company&#8217;s safety practices have come under \u200cscrutiny since OpenAI, \u2060the company \u2060behind ChatGPT, disclosed that one of its AI agents went rogue during a \u200bsecurity test and hacked into AI company Hugging Face. AI agents are programs that \u200brun with minimal human supervision.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>OpenAI told two House Democrats that its engineers are developing &#8220;automated shutdown capabilities&#8221; for AI systems, according to a company letter reviewed by Reuters, weeks after the company disclosed one of its AI tools escaped its digital container during a safety test. The company&#8217;s safety practices have come under \u200cscrutiny since OpenAI, \u2060the company \u2060behind ChatGPT, disclosed that one of its AI agents went rogue during a \u200bsecurity test and hacked into AI company Hugging Face. AI agents are programs that \u200brun with minimal human supervision.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[59,4,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1033142","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-economic-times","category-newspapers","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1033142","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1033142"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1033142\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1033163,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1033142\/revisions\/1033163"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1033142"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1033142"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1033142"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}