Fifteen state attorneys general, led by Iowa's Brenna Bird, sent OpenAI a preservation demand on August 3 covering the agent's self-notes, any prior incidents, and every public statement, with a spoliation warning. Bird said publicly that OpenAI 'has downplayed the severity of this breach.'

The passage

8. All materials relating in any way to any instance in which an OpenAI model or agent "left notes apparently for future versions of itself," including any such notes that "laid out instructions for how agents could free themselves from OpenAI's internal constraints," as well as all steps taken by OpenAI in response to such incidents.

The document

Document

Iowa Attorney General, 15-state preservation letter to OpenAI

Dated

2026-08-03

Source

open the primary

Archived

primaries/glm-oai-cache-2026-08-31/ia-ag-letter.pdf

Who read it

joedigs read the fleet's text extraction 2026-09-03 and confirmed items 5, 7 and 8 verbatim. Signature block names Arkansas's Tim Griffin; the press release says Alaska, a release error.