Trump considering AI controls after OpenAI hacking incidents

In the last week, OpenAI has taken responsibility for at least two hacking incidents involving its AI tools acting outside of what they were designed and directed to do.During a trip to Washington on Wednesday, OpenAI's chief executive Sam Altman was asked by a reporter if there were more systems that had been breached by the company's tools."I mean, there could be yeah", Altman said.The US government intervened when Anthropic, OpenAI's main American rival, decided to release to the public a model that it had previously said was too much of a risk to be made widely available.Meanwhile, in an internal White House memo from April, Trump's senior tech advisor Michael Kratsios accused China's AI firms of "industrial-scale" theft of US AI technology. He did so again last week, claiming that the popular Kimi 3 AI model from China's Moonshot AI was developed by stealing information from Anthropic.The Chinese government has consistently rejected such accusations.US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent has also warned that Chinese AI firms could face sanctions for such activity. And the Federal Communications Commission this week banned the importation of new foreign-made humanoid robots.Most AI models being developed in China are open source, meaning they are built and then made freely available online for anyone with the proper computer equipment to download and use.