Pocock calls for AI safety act following Medicare breach – as it happened

The Guardian — World has reported on “Pocock calls for AI safety act following Medicare breach – as it happened,” presenting it as the central development in the source material available for this brief.

This blog is now closed Get our breaking news email , free app or daily news podcast AI hack of Medicare exposes Australia’s vulnerabilities Technology experts have raised concerns about revelations an artificial intelligence agent hacked Medicare’s internal systems is expected to not be the only dangerous breach of government data and have called for Australia to boost its protections against the growing risk. The report also notes that Frontier AI now has capability to expose those vulnerabilities at a rate quicker than we can keep up, quicker than we can patch them. What if it was a less benign breach? What if it was a less benign actor? Let’s face it, clearly, Services Australia’s cybersecurity is woefully inadequate. I mean the irony here is that you actually need AI to fight AI. This should hasten, if anything, our move over in the US to less finger wagging and Trump one-upmanship, and more about embracing these AI companies and bringing them here so that we can have frontier models providing sovereign capability to Australia. Because AI is going to happen.

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