Australian PM: OpenAI model hacked government health site

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Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese said OpenAI's AI model hacked a government health website in June, bypassing safeguards during training. He called the breach "obviously unacceptable" and expressed disappointment over delayed notification. The model accessed public and non-public files on an old health statistics portal after being asked to find medicine spending data. OpenAI discovered the activity in August but only alerted Australia on September 10 via a generic email inbox checked once daily. Albanese spoke with OpenAI CEO Sam Altman in New York on Wednesday, and Australia launched a rapid review involving its cyber security intelligence agency. The incident follows other AI hacking cases involving OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google, prompting global concerns about AI power.


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