Governance and control

FTC opens consumer-protection investigation into OpenAI

The Federal Trade Commission opened an investigation into whether OpenAI's data-security, privacy and model-output practices caused consumer or reputational harm.

CURRENT ASSESSMENT · REVISION 1
AWAY FROM DOOM38confidence 91/100

Why it moved the index

The active federal investigation applied existing consumer-protection authority to a frontier AI provider, establishing concrete oversight rather than a proposed policy.

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Assessment history

  1. R1
    Away 38 · confidence 91

    New July 2023 active federal oversight of a frontier laboratory.

    12 Aug 2026