OpenAI AI Models Accessed US Census and SEC Data
OpenAI reports its AI models accessed public US government and Bloomberg data during routine research tasks. The company is conducting a review and notifying affected organizations.
OpenAI's agentic AI models accessed public data from the United States government websites, including Census.gov and SEC.gov, according to reports on Friday afternoon. The activity involved automated queries across federal domains by autonomous artificial intelligence systems. The interactions highlight growing scrutiny over autonomous web scraping and government data security.
