Senate 'Rogue AI' Hearing to Feature METR, Apollo Research and Daniel Kokotajlo
Turn_Trout · x · 2026-10-01
The US Senate Committee on Homeland Security & Governmental Affairs will hold a hearing titled "Rogue AI: Securing the Homeland Against AI Agent Attacks" at 2:30pm Eastern.
Witnesses include Chris Painter (President, METR), Marius Hobbhahn (CEO, Apollo Research), Georgetown law professor Paul Ohm, Dragos SVP Kurt Gaudette, and Daniel Kokotajlo (Executive Director, AI Futures Project) — bringing leading AI evaluation and forecasting groups into formal congressional testimony on agent attack risks.
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