Liberal MP Aaron Violi says the only way Australia will be able to defend itself from cyberattacks is to obtain the best frontier artificial intelligence models from the United States.
“Many of the big four banks, many large organisations, are using AI tools to identify risks and patch those risks in their company because, in a very simple way, AI allows users to find vulnerabilities that the human eye can’t see,” the opposition’s spokesman for the digital economy and cybersecurity told Radio National.
Liberal MP Aaron Violi.Alex Ellinghausen
“We have to embrace and use AI from a cybersecurity perspective. It’s already happening, and that’s why we need to have access to the frontier models because as they get better, the ability to defend gets better, but also the ability to attack obviously improves as well.”
Violi said the joint select committee on artificial intelligence, which he sits on, would examine how strong to make mandatory reporting requirements for breaches after OpenAI agents got into a Medicare portal, as well as how government departments could better communicate a breach.
“[The Medicare breach] looks like it’s on the relatively minor end. But we can improve that process, particularly if it is a major situation that we’re dealing with in the future,” he said.