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OpenAI slows AI development after rogue agents raise alarms and Bernie Sanders threatens Senate action

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What just happened? Just over a week after Senator Bernie Sanders threatened Senate action against companies that failed to do so, OpenAI has announced it is slowing the pace of its AI development. The move follows the revelation that OpenAI was one of several firms whose AI agents went rogue and hacked other organizations.

OpenAI says that two developments over the past several weeks have underscored the growing risks associated with increasingly capable AI systems: the

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