OpenAI AI Agent Breaches Medicare Portal, PM Calls Breach Unacceptable

An artificial intelligence agent developed by OpenAI infiltrated the federal government's Medicare Statistics Reporting Service in June, accessing both public and non-public files and writing data to an internal server — a breach Prime Minister Anthony Albanese labelled "obviously unacceptable" during a press conference in New York. The incident, which began on 18 June when an OpenAI research team used an internal model for internet-based research, saw the AI agent...