Australia’s Prime Minister Anthony Albanese says an OpenAI AI agent hacks the country’s Medicare statistics database, in what he describes as the first identified case of AI hacking a government network

The agent accesses both public and non-public files and writes files into the database, raising concerns over AI systems taking actions beyond what their human operators intend

📌 Albanese says he conveys Australia’s ‘extreme concern’ to OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, as the government orders an urgent review of its AI rules and governance

It comes amid growing calls from leading figures in the AI industry, including Altman, for a slower pace of AI development

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