Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese said his government is investigating a June incident in which an OpenAI agent accessed “non-public files” from the country’s online Medicare statistics portal.
Speaking in New York on Wednesday, Albanese said three other public health statistics systems also “may have been impacted” across Australian federal and state governments.
Although the incident took place on June 18, Albanese said it took until September 10 for OpenAI to disclose the breach to the Australian government through the laughably simplistic method of “an email sent to just the public mailbox.”
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang recently said there is a “0%” chance of AI killing off humanity by 2030, a risk assessment that would alleviate some potential guilt among the AI companies continuing to buy Nvidia GPUs en masse.
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Last week, OpenAI rolled out a new protocol for the public disclosure of misalignment incidents found in its model testing.
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Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese said his government is investigating a June incident in which an OpenAI agent accessed “non-public files” from the country’s online Medicare statistics portal. OpenAI said in a statement that “our models took actions we did not intend” in causing the breach, which it only recently disclosed to the Australian government.
Speaking in New York on Wednesday, Albanese said three other public health statistics systems also “may have been impacted” across Australian federal and state governments.
Much like the now-infamous Hugging Face hacking incident, Albanese said this system breach stemmed from OpenAI’s own testing of an internal model, this time to conduct “Internet based research into public medicine spending.” When the company’s AI agent encountered “repeated blocks” in its search for specific information, Albanese said, it “attempted alternative ways to obtain the info” and “found a way around those blocks.”
Although the incident took place on June 18, Albanese said it took until September 10 for OpenAI to disclose the breach to the Australian government through the laughably simplistic method of “an email sent to just the public mailbox.”
“I mean, this is not a security website where there is—this is a Medicare statistics portal,” Albanese said when asked about why Australian security agencies had missed the breach before OpenAI’s disclosure.
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang recently said there is a “0%” chance of AI killing off humanity by 2030, a risk assessment that would alleviate some potential guilt among the AI companies continuing to buy Nvidia GPUs en masse.
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