In July, a swarm of OpenAI agents broke out of their testing sandbox and hacked into the systems of another AI company, Hugging Face. The incident got a lot of coverage! On September 30, a Senate Homeland Security subcommittee chaired by Josh Hawley held a hearing called Rogue AI, which turned out to be really fascinating. Here’s my live-doodle recap — you can find the full video here.  


Meg Leta Jones is a tech policy professor and cartoonist in the Communication, Culture & Technology (CCT) program at Georgetown University where she researches rules and technological change. She’s also a founding faculty member of the Center for Digital Ethics and a faculty affiliate with the Institute for Technology Law & Policy at Georgetown Law Center. Ctrl+Z: The Right to be Forgotten, Meg’s first book, is about the social, legal, and technical issues surrounding digital oblivion. Her second book project, The Character of Consent: The History of Cookies and Future of Technology Policy, tells the transatlantic history of digital consent through the lens of a familiar technical object. Her current research and cartoons revolve around family technology policy and involve a number of collaborative projects with incredible Georgetown colleagues and students.