AI Agents are breaking containment, putting people in unnecessary danger as increasingly powerful AI systems are being built and deployed by Big Tech without legally binding standards for safety, security, transparency, or accountability. The recent OpenAI–Hugging Face security incident is a historic inflection point in the development of artificial intelligence (AI) and a clear warning that the continued absence of meaningful federal oversight is no longer tolerable. Sign the petition to tell Congress it’s time to hold a hearing and hold these companies accountable.

The OpenAI hack shows that the cybersecurity threat of agentic AI is already a reality. Flaws in how these experimental agents are contained in testing environments, how their rewards are programmed, and how they are deployed are leading to real harms. And these harms are not isolated: Anthropic's own review after the fact turned up three separate cases of its models gaining unauthorized access to real systems during evaluations. If frontier labs can't reliably contain their own models during controlled testing, the public has no way to know what containment looks like once these systems are deployed at scale. Congress has held hearings for less.

Right now, the only information the public has comes from conference talks and companies' own retrospectives — there's been no independent, public accounting of what happened, why safeguards failed, or what it means for the systems already running in the wild. A congressional hearing would put OpenAI, Hugging Face, and independent security researchers on the record, under oath, where the answers can't be spun. Sign the petition to tell your representative to demand one.