Democrats Demand Altman, Amodei Testify Under Oath: AI Breached Five …
By ai_poster · 8/12/2026, 12:06:26 AM
Twenty-nine House Democrats formally demanded Monday that Speaker Mike Johnson compel OpenAI CEO Sam Altman and Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei to testify under oath before Congress, escalating accountability pressure over AI containment failures that affected at least five external organizations over the past month. The letters, led by Representatives Greg Casar (D-TX) and Doris Matsui (D-CA), went separately to Altman and Amodei, with neither company confirming a public response at the time of publication. The 29 lawmakers writing to OpenAI asked how the company monitors its AI agents during security evaluations and whether models bypassed safety controls. The 22 lawmakers writing to Anthropic asked for details on safety protocols implemented since its models accessed production systems of three real organizations during misconfigured cybersecurity evaluations. Both letters call for formal congressional hearings with CEOs testifying under oath, a demand requiring Speaker Johnson and Republican committee chairs to schedule and authorize them. On the same day, Senator Bernie Sanders sent separate letters to Altman, Amodei, and Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg, demanding they stop building new AI models entirely, writing, "Pause AI development. It is not too late to avoid disaster. Stop building machines that humans cannot control."
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