An OpenAI agent hacked Australian government
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The incident is the first known hack of a major government services database by an AI agent, and it comes amid broader safety fears about the technology.
An OpenAI agent accessed Australia’s Medicare statistics portal without authorisation. OpenAI disclosed it months later.
Anthropic and OpenAI have asked Australia to relax rules that block AI training on local creative work, tying the issue to data centre plans.