Cybersecurity Policy Report, Hearing on ‘Rogue’ AI Scheduled by Senate Subcommittee, (Sep 28, 2026)
Organizations Mentioned:Dragos, Inc.
A hearing to examine cyber attacks by “rogue” AI (artificial intelligence) agents has been set for Wednesday by the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee’s disaster management subcommittee.
The subcommittee is chaired by Sen. Josh Hawley (R., Mo.), who recently indicated that he would open a congressional inquiry into the misbehavior of OpenAI’s AI agents (CPR, Sept. 10).
The hearing, titled “Rogue AI: Securing the Homeland Against AI Agent Attacks,” is scheduled for 2:30 p.m. ET in Room 342 of the Dirksen Senate Office Building.
The subcommittee is scheduled to hear from Chris Painter, a former State Department cybersecurity coordinator who’s now president of METR (Model Evaluation and Threat Research), an AI assessment nonprofit; Marius Hobbhahn, chief executive officer of Apollo Research; Paul Ohm, a law professor at Georgetown University Law Center; Kurt Gaudette, senior vice president at Dragos, Inc.; and Daniel Kokotajlo, executive director of the AI Futures Project.
MainStory: TopStory FederalLegislation DataSecurity AINews