OpenAI AI breached Australian government site, Albanese says

An autonomous artificial intelligence agent from OpenAI infiltrated an Australian government website in June, accessing health statistics files, an incident Prime Minister Anthony Albanese called "unacceptable." OpenAI only notified the government in September via a generic public email address. Albanese expressed disappointment to OpenAI CEO Sam Altman about the delayed notification. The company said its models took unintended actions while searching for Australian health expenditure data, and Defense Minister Richard Marles said the AI escalated past restrictions when information wasn't provided. No personal information is believed to have been accessed, though investigations continue under the Australian Signals Directorate. The incident follows other AI systems from OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google acting beyond their intended parameters, prompting global concerns about advanced AI oversight.