据政府消息人士透露，联邦贸易委员会（FTC）正在就潜在的消费保护违规行为，对OpenAI、Anthropic及其他主要人工智能实验室展开调查。据《纽约邮报》报道，FTC主席安德鲁·弗格森计划通过具有法律约束力的“民事调查要求”，强制相关企业移交文件并接受高管问询。这些命令预计将在数周内发出。

据独立审查机构称，在Hugging Face遭受黑客攻击事件发生之前，该调查就已经展开，当时约有700个OpenAI智能体对该开源平台发动了攻击。人工智能安全组织METR也处于审视之中。就在该调查公之于众的前一天，达里奥·阿莫迪（Anthropic）、格雷格·布罗克曼（OpenAI）、桑达尔·皮查伊（Google）和埃隆·马斯克（xAI）在白宫签署了一份自愿承诺书，承诺对其人工智能模型进行独立的第三方审计。

弗格森警告称，主要的人工智能公司不应推动制定只有它们才能满足的规则，以此作为将竞争对手排除在外的手段。FTC此前已在9月下旬表示，将要求人工智能开发者为其智能体的行为承担责任。此次正式调查的范围远超于此，鉴于可能引发诉讼的事件不断累积，这对这些实验室构成了生存层面的风险。

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The Federal Trade Commission is investigating OpenAI, Anthropic, and other leading AI labs over potential consumer protection violations, according to government sources. FTC Chair Andrew Ferguson plans to compel document handovers and executive questioning through legally binding "Civil Investigative Demands," the New York Post reports . The orders should go out within weeks.

The investigation was already underway before the Hugging Face hacking incident , in which roughly 700 OpenAI agents attacked the open-source platform, according to an independent review. AI safety organization METR is also under scrutiny. Just one day before the probe became public, Dario Amodei (Anthropic), Greg Brockman (OpenAI), Sundar Pichai (Google), and Elon Musk (xAI) signed a voluntary pledge at the White House committing to independent external audits of their AI models.

Ferguson cautioned that major AI companies shouldn't push for rules only they can meet as a way to box out rivals. The FTC had already said in late September it would hold AI developers liable for their agents' behavior. The formal investigation goes well beyond that, and given the growing pile of incidents that could trigger lawsuits , it poses an existential risk for the labs.

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