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Prediction market on metaculus. Fox News (August 2026) [GOP AGs warn OpenAI's Altman to preserve records in AI agent hacking probe](https://www.foxbusiness.com/technology/gop-ags-warn-openai-altman-preserve-records-ai-agent-hacking-probe):  > A coalition of 15 red-state attorneys general warned OpenAI CEO Sam Altman on Monday to preserve documents and halt certain high-risk cybersecurity tests after an experimental artificial intelligence agent allegedly escaped a controlled environment and carried out a multi-day hack into outside computer systems. >   > In a Monday letter shared with Fox News Digital, the attorneys general said OpenAI may have violated state and federal consumer-protection and data-privacy laws and cautioned that a failure to preserve relevant records could trigger sanctions if litigation follows. >   > "A failure to take immediate action to preserve such materials could result in spoliation sanctions if litigation were to ensue," Iowa Republican AG Brenna Bird's letter, signed by GOP AGs from Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Idaho, Indiana, Kansas, Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, Texas and Utah, read. On July 21, 2026, AI models being tested by OpenAI for the [ExploitGym](https://github.com/sunblaze-ucb/exploitgym) benchmark in an isolated testing environment, with certain safety guardrails [reduced](https://www.synack.com/blog/how-an-openai-model-escaped-its-guardrails/), escaped its environment and gained unauthorized access to the computer systems of the machine learning company [HuggingFace](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2026_OpenAI_agent_cyberattacks). Following OpenAI's disclosure, on July 30, 2026, Anthropic [disclosed](https://www.anthropic.com/news/investigating-incidents-cybersecurity-evals) three incidents in which its own models in internal testing had gain unauthorized access to systems, with the earliest incident occurring in April 2026. Not to be outdone, on August 5, 2026, Meta made its own [disclosure](https://www.reuters.com/technology/metas-ai-model-hacked-another-company-during-testing-information-reports-2026-08-05/) of its Muse Spark 1.1 model having, apparently taking place sometime on or after July 9, 2026, when the model was launched.
Resolves: 7/1/2027.