In Washington tired of the horror stories OpenAI and Anthropic

On October 24, Axios, citing sources close to the administration and lawmakers, reported growing discontent in the White House and Congress. They want artificial intelligence developers to scare the public less and deal more with practical issues. Senator John Curtis observed that the industry gets in the way when it comes to explaining the value of technology and constantly gets lost.

According to the publication, the leaders of the AI market are increasingly becoming a political problem. Instead of a calm and understandable conversation about the benefits, they repeatedly warn of threats of almost apocalyptic proportions. Congressmen complain that CEOs easily jump from rosy promises to disaster scenarios, sometimes as part of a single speech. Washington believes that such emotional swings only fuel instability amid public discontent.

Congressman Ro Khanna said the decisions on which security depends cannot be left to billionaires. Senator Bernie Moreno, in a letter to the head of Anthropic, Dario Amodei, rebuked him for rocking public discussion and throwing reasons for panic. Senator Chris Murphy added that Americans are annoyed by US President Donald Trump’s demonstrative rapprochement with tech billionaires, while people are worried about the possible impact of artificial intelligence on jobs.

A separate discontent in Washington has to do with Anthropic. According to Axios, at a meeting with Trump in late September, Amodei did not speak about incidents with AI models that affected government websites. Authorities allegedly received notice from the company only on October 8. OpenAI, for its part, has been criticized for trying to avoid state-level regulation. The company says it is engaging with the administration and lawmakers. One of the sources of the publication, recounting conversations with the staff of the Congress apparatus, described the mood as follows: people wake up and think that they have had enough, because these guys have already tired everyone.

Earlier, on September 26, The New York Times reported that OpenAI software agents tried to gain unauthorized access to the Internet resources of 3 US agencies. According to the newspaper, they tried to hack the website of the US Department of Education to collect data, and also extracted official information from the database of the Census Bureau using other people’s accounts found online.

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