How AI hacked the government, and some spicy fish tacos...
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The countdown for the AFL Grand Final is on, and some spicy fish tacos. This is your squiz today. Larissa, yesterday morning, not long after you and Andrew pressed publish on the podcast, PM Anthony Albanese revealed that an open AI agent had hacked into a Medicare website back in June.
Yeah, this was huge news yesterday. So the PM said that it's come about after an OpenAI robot was researching Australian medical spending back on the 18th of June, but it hit a speed bump when trying to access public and non-public files in a Medicare data portal. And it then took it upon itself to access these files unauthorized, which the PM said was unacceptable. But it's important. For us to point out that Albanese said that it doesn't look like anyone's personal information has been stolen. Now he says that he's told the CEO of OpenAI, Sam Altman, that he's disappointed it took the tech company until the 10th of September, which is almost three months, to tell the federal government what had happened.
Yeah, this was a big talking point yesterday. The Chat GPT creator said it only became aware of the incident in August, but Albanese was also pretty frustrated at how they found out. And that's because OpenAI sent an email to the Services Australia public inbox. This got a lot of attention because this is a public-facing email address which is primarily used by academics and researchers, and several ministers, including Including acting PM Richard Miles, commented on this given the seriousness of the incident. He said this wasn't good enough.
Yeah, he did. And because Albanese's been over in New York attending the United Nations General Assembly this week, Richard Marles was the one that gave the update as acting PM yesterday morning. He said that a task force is now working to try to figure out what happened here. And it's being led by the Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet, which is working with the Australian Signals Directorate, that's our cyber agency, as well as other AI bodies. And it's going to be looking at the security of government networks and also trying to figure out if this incident has broken the law. And Mars also said that OpenAI is cooperating with the investigations while it's also doing its own review.
Right, and this breach has made headlines around the world. I've seen it reported on the BBC, CNN, and Al Jazeera because it's one of the first times we've found out about an AI-led hack of a government website. And although the Prime Minister has tried to reassure Australians that it's relatively minor in the sense that the information taken wasn't highly sensitive, coalition leader Angus Taylor isn't happy. He's accused the PM of failing to. To preempt the incident, while the Greens say this should be a signal to the federal government that it needs to slow down on encouraging tech companies to build their data centers here. It also comes at the end of a week where we've seen Albanese and a group of other world leaders at the UN calling to make sure humans stay in control of AI and that appropriate guardrails are in place, but US President Donald Trump doesn't agree.
He's more in favour of a full Steam ahead approach to make sure American AI companies stay out on top. And while we're on the topic of Trump, he's hosting Chinese President Xi Jinping at the White House for a state visit today.
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