42 State AGs Subpoena OpenAI Over User Safety, Data, Minor Risks
The subpoena, issued by the New York attorney general's office and reviewed by the Journal, encompasses advertising, user engagement and retention, consumer and health data practices, activities related to minors and seniors, deep learning models, model sycophancy, and company policies.
"AI is a new and powerful technology, and we work every day to safely bring its benefits to people in a responsible way," an OpenAI spokesperson said. "We take the concerns raised by state attorneys general seriously and intend to engage constructively with their offices."
Florida became the first state to sue OpenAI and its chief executive Sam Altman earlier this month, alleging the company "knowingly released an unsafe product and ignored warnings that it could harm users." The state's attorney general had already opened a criminal investigation in April into OpenAI's role following a mass shooting at Florida State University last year, in which the suspect allegedly used ChatGPT as a sounding board to plan the attack.
The multi-state coalition also sent letters to OpenAI's rivals — Meta, Anthropic, Alphabet's Google, and xAI — warning that "developers may be held accountable for the outputs of their GenAI products" for "encouraging an individual to commit a criminal act." California's attorney general separately opened a January investigation into sexually explicit imagery of women and children generated by xAI's Grok chatbot, material allegedly used to harass individuals across Elon Musk's platform X. X and Grok are part of Musk's SpaceX, which launched its initial public offering Friday. OpenAI itself confidentially filed IPO paperwork with the Securities and Exchange Commission earlier this month.
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