breached a Medicare statistics website<\/a>.<\/p>\nThis week, the company told a parliamentary committee in Australia it would support legal reforms.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe would support a framework on mandatory disclosures,\u201d OpenAI\u2019s Chief Strategy Officer Jason Kwon said.<\/p>\n
Australia vows to change the law<\/p>\n
The Albanese Government vowed last month to change the law if it emerges that OpenAI cannot be charged over the breach of a Medicare website and other government websites in June.<\/p>\n
The Prime Minister revealed in New York that OpenAI effectively hacked the Medicare statistics portal and accused the tech giant of not informing Australia quickly enough.<\/p>\n
The government and OpenAI maintain that no confidential patient material was hacked.<\/p>\n
\u2018Not human\u2019<\/p>\n
Assistant Minister for Science, Technology, and the Digital Economy Andrew Charlton said the government was taking advice on next steps.<\/p>\n
\u201cThis is clearly an important cyber breach, and it\u2019s right that it be investigated,\u2019\u2019 he told ABC radio.<\/p>\n
\u201cAnd we\u2019re also looking through a rapid review at whether there are changes to the Australian law that will be required to recognise this type of breach and its propensity going forward.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe AI agent is not a legal person, and in our law, liability for this type of incident always sits with a person or a company.<\/p>\n
\u201cIn this situation, where the breach was conducted by an AI agent. The liability has to be traced back to the intent of a person or a company that created or directed the agent.\u201d<\/p>\n
OpenAI breaks silence after Medicare hack<\/p>\n
In a statement at the time, OpenAI said it was conducting an extensive review of \u201cmisaligned model activity during training and evaluation and notifying third parties when our review identifies potential impacts to their systems.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cDuring this review, we identified activity involving several Australian government websites and services as our models attempted to look up answers, and available statistics for questions about Australia during an internal evaluation,\u2019\u2019 the statement said.<\/p>\n
\u201cIn the course of that, our models took actions we did not intend.<\/p>\n
\u201cOur review found no evidence of patient records being accessed.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe information accessed included aggregate health statistics and internal file names. We notified the organisations and are providing technical information to support their investigations and help address potential security vulnerabilities.<\/p>\n
\u201cOur overall review is ongoing, and we remain committed to transparency about these issues and to sharing what we learn as that work continues.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Rogue AI agents created by Anthropic submitted a false homicide tip to Philadelphia police and tried to 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