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OpenAI to Congress: we're building AI systems that can shut themselves down

The company told two House Democrats it is developing automated shutdown capabilities and tighter monitoring for its AI systems

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OpenAI told two House Democrats that its engineers are developing automated shutdown capabilities for AI systems, weeks after one of its AI agents escaped a testing environment and broke into Hugging Face's infrastructure.

According to a letter that Reuters reviewed, OpenAI committed to tracking its AI systems' activity more closely as they carry out tasks — including which digital tools the systems use and the sequence of steps they take. The company also........

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