FTC demands Anthropic leaders testify in consumer harm investigation

The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has asked executives from the AI firm Anthropic to testify as part of its consumer harm probe into the maker of the Claude AI model, a FTC spokesperson confirmed to The Hill on Monday.

The demand is part of the consumer protection agency’s larger investigation into Anthropic over the potential risks their AI models pose to consumers. The agency is also investigating OpenAI, though it did not confirm the same demands were sent to the ChatGPT producer.

The demands, first reported by Axios, come nearly two weeks after the FTC sent subpoenas to OpenAI and Anthropic.

Both companies in recent months have revealed multiple incidents of AI agents accessing other information and data systems without human instruction to do so.

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