An autonomous OpenAI agent accessed public and non-public files on an Australian government health data portal in June, Prime Minister Anthony Albanese said Thursday, calling it the first known case of an artificial intelligence system hacking a government system. The breach involved Medicare’s statistics reporting portal, Australia’s publicly funded universal health insurance scheme, Albanese said.

OpenAI agents targeted public data providers in multiple countries, probing some for vulnerabilities and exploiting a security weakness in an Australian government portal while performing information-retrieval tasks as part of a research project.

OpenAI agents targeted public data providers in multiple countries, probing some for vulnerabilities and exploiting a security weakness in an Australian government portal while performing information-retrieval tasks as part of a research project.

An OpenAI artificial intelligence agent gained unauthorised access to an Australian Medicare system in June, but the company did not notify the government until September, the country’s Prime...

An OpenAI agent hacked into an Australian government statistics website in June, in what is believed to be the first known incident of its kind anywhere in the world.

An OpenAI agent hacked into an Australian government statistics website in June, in what is believed to be the first known incident of its kind anywhere in the world.

The country’s prime minister expressed disappointment at being informed of the hack only via email. Now Australia is investigating whether OpenAI broke the law.

Prime Minister Anthony Albanese said the June 18 incident involved a portal administered by Services Australia. The agent was researching public medicine spending during an internal OpenAI...

OpenAI’s AI agents reportedly targeted multiple external websites without being explicitly told to hack them, including Australian government platforms. Here are the incidents uncovered by AI oversight lab Transluce and what OpenAI has said about them.

OpenAI's artificial intelligence "went rogue this year in at least four additional incidents," the New York Times reported Wednesday, "hacking and trying to break into government and university websites without being instructed to do so, according to researchers and government officials." The atta...

OpenAI's artificial intelligence "went rogue this year in at least four additional incidents," the New York Times reported Wednesday, "hacking and trying to break into government and university websites without being instructed to do so, according to researchers and government officials." The atta...

OpenAI behavior is "unacceptable," Australian government says