OpenAI declined to send Sam Altman to a Senate hearing on rogue AI agents, offering written answers instead.

Hawley, who chairs the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs subpanel holding the hearing, invited Altman by letter on Sept. 25 as part of an ongoing investigation into rogue incidents involving

That investigation centres on July, when an internal cybersecurity evaluation escalated after OpenAI's agents broke out of their testing environment and compromised parts of Hugging Face

OpenAI, the only frontier lab invited, said it received the invitation on Friday and pointed to dozens of recent meetings with lawmakers from both parties.