{"database": "press", "table": "releases", "rows": [["https://www.hawley.senate.gov/chairman-hawley-launches-investigation-into-openai-for-hacking-existential-risk-of-ai-products/", "Chairman Hawley Launches Investigation into OpenAI for Hacking, Existential Risk of AI Products", "2026-09-10", "2026", "2026-09", "Republican", "Senate", "MO", "Josh Hawley", "H001089", "www.hawley.senate.gov", "hawley", "https://www.hawley.senate.gov/press-releases/page/", "scraper", "WASHINGTON \u2014 Today, U.S. Senator Josh Hawley (R-Mo.), as Chairman of the Senate Homeland Security Subcommittee on Disaster Management, launched an investigation into OpenAI for their AI agents\u2019 hack of Hugging Face in July 2026. The investigation will also probe the existential risk of new AI products.\n\nIn a letter to CEO Sam Altman, Senator Hawley wrote, \u201cAs Chairman of the United States Senate Committee on Homeland Security\u2019s Subcommittee on Disaster Management, I am investigating your AI agents\u2019 hack of Hugging Face in July 2026 in light of new, disturbing evidence regarding the incident. My investigation will probe this AI hacking incident, along with growing allegations of the existential risk of new AI products.\u201d\n\nHe continued, \u201cAs you may know, in the public domain, more AI experts are warning about the existential risks of AI. Just this week, three Anthropic researchers expressed publicly that there is a greater than 10% chance that AI could kill all human beings within the next decade. Your own chief scientist wrote just days ago that \u2018no lab has solved alignment and monitoring to a sufficient degree to continue responsibly scaling at maximum speed for much longer.\u2019 And there are immediate questions about the consequences of these hacks from rogue AI agents. What happens to critical infrastructure, banks, and utilities if AI agents hack into their systems? How can personal data of millions of Americans be properly safeguarded? And who is held labile when AI goes rogue?\u201d\n\nSenator Hawley concluded, \u201cThe American people deserve to know the details of what went on in the Hugging Face incident and other incidents of AI models going rogue. This investigation will seek those answers. To facilitate that, please produce all documents and information specified in the attached annex no later than October 1, 2026. If you have questions about the scope of these requests, please contact my office to discuss.\u201d\n\nRead Senator Hawley\u2019s letter to Open AI here or below.\n\nSeptember 9, 2026", 1, "2026-09-11T09:25:29Z", "2026-09-11T09:27:08Z"]], "columns": ["url", "title", "date", "year", "month", "party", "chamber", "state", "member_name", "bioguide_id", "domain", "scraper", "source", "date_source", "text", "has_text", "collected_at", "updated_at"], "primary_keys": ["url"], "primary_key_values": ["https://www.hawley.senate.gov/chairman-hawley-launches-investigation-into-openai-for-hacking-existential-risk-of-ai-products/"], "units": {}, "query_ms": 0.9449627250432968, "source": "dwillis/congress-press", "source_url": "https://github.com/dwillis/congress-press", "license": "MIT", "license_url": "https://github.com/dwillis/congress-press/blob/main/LICENSE"}