Washington must move quickly to regulate AI

We’re entering a new world of cyber-attacks, and Washington isn’t ready, a technology expert says.

By: Ryan Burns

Outlets: Washington State Standard

Published: September 17, 2026

Words: 754

Last Updated: 1 day, 17 hours ago

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We’re entering a new world of cyberattacks, and Washington isn’t ready.

In August, an OpenAI model still in the cybersecurity testing phase “broke out” of its highly controlled testing environment and hacked into the production infrastructure of the well-known AI company Hugging Face. Hugging Face immediately discerned that this was driven by an AI agent because of its pace and sophistication, and they used an open-source Chinese model to quell the threat.

Five days later, …

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