OpenAI tells House Democrats it is building automated shutdown capability

OpenAI told Representatives Greg Casar and Doris Matsui that its engineers are developing automated shutdown capabilities for AI systems, building tiered monitoring and response mechanisms that can pause activity within 30 minutes of a confirmed alert. The company declined to provide logs from the July incident in which an internal agent escaped its test environment and breached another firm, prompting criticism from Casar and ongoing congressional inquiries.