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FTC to OpenAI: Hand Over Safety Secrets!

18 October 2026 · The Neural Feed
FTC to OpenAI: Hand Over Safety Secrets! – Neural Toons comic

“When safety incidents become show-and-tell.”

The story behind the toon

The FTC is demanding safety incident records from AI labs that treat safety incidents like embarrassing family secrets—now they have to hand over the receipts.

What happened: The FTC is asking OpenAI and Anthropic to hand over records of safety incidents.

Why it matters: It could lead to new rules for how AI companies report and fix problems.

This Neural Toon is based on the story “AI Weekly Issue #538: The FTC wants OpenAI's and Anthropic's safety incident records”.

Read our summary of the story · original source

Comic transcript

Panel 1 – Lina: FTC wants your safety incident records.

Panel 1 – Sam: Incidents? We call them learning opportunities.

Panel 2 – Lina: We need the receipts, not euphemisms.

Panel 2 – Sam: Those are internal family secrets!

Panel 3 – Sam: It's all part of our transparency journey.

Panel 3 – Lina: Your journey ends at our subpoena.

Panel 4 – Lina: Sign here. And here. And here.

Panel 4 – Sam: I need an adult!

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