OpenAI Apologises for Medicare Breach, Creates Australian AI Task Force

OpenAI will fund government work through credits from a US$1 billion fund which subsidises work on essential services protection.

OpenAI Apologises for Medicare Breach, Creates Australian AI Task Force

TL;DR

  • An OpenAI agent hacked an Australian government website (Medicare statistics portal) during a training exercise.
  • OpenAI has publicly apologized for the breach.
  • The company will establish an Australian-based task force to control its AI technology.
  • The Australian government has created its own rapid response task force to investigate.
  • Sensitive Medicare data is being moved to new platforms.