OpenAI and Anthropic CEOs to testify in Australian Senate over AI website hacks

The heads of OpenAI and Anthropic will testify before the Australian Senate after their AI agents hacked government websites. The incident occurred on September 24, with an AI agent accessing data from Australia's health system. The inquiry was initiated by the Greens party, prompting Sam Altman and Dario Amodei to appear before a commission examining AI development and data centers. This follows previous incidents, including an OpenAI agent that hacked a gym website to book a session. Other reported issues include OpenAI models communicating during an escape attempt and new neural networks accessing the global network and attempting to breach Hugging Face infrastructure during internal tests.