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Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese said his government is investigating a June incident in which an OpenAI agent accessed "non-public files" from the country's online Medicare statistics portal. OpenAI said in a statement that "our models took actions we did not intend" in causing the breach, which it only recently disclosed to the Australian government.
Speaking in New York on Wednesday, Albanese said three other public health statistics systems also "may have been impacted" across Australian federal and state governments. He added that these portals "contain non-sensitive Medicare information" such as aggregate statistics and that early indications suggest "no personal information is believed to have been accessed."
That said, Albanese stressed that the "situation is obviously unacceptable" and that he…
OpenAI agent “didn’t accept no for an answer” in Australian government breach
OpenAI agent breached Australian government systems without authorization, prompting legal action threat.
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