OpenAI's AI Agent Accessed Australian Government Website, Canberra Calls It "Unacceptable"
Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese condemned an incident that occurred in June when an AI agent developed by OpenAI accessed both public and non-public files from Australia's health statistics service.
An artificial intelligence agent developed by the company OpenAI accessed, in June, public and non-public files of the Australian health statistics service, an incident that Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese described as "unacceptable", according to Le Monde.
Anthony Albanese said that his government was only alerted to this incident by OpenAI in September, several months after the fact, through an email sent to a generic email address.
The delay between the incident and notification has drawn criticism of OpenAI's reporting procedures for unauthorized access to third-party systems by its artificial intelligence agents.
Australian authorities did not specify the exact extent of the data accessed or the measures taken since then to secure the affected systems. OpenAI did not immediately comment publicly on the incident.
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- Un agent d’IA de la société OpenAI a infiltré un site gouvernemental australien, un incident « inacceptable », dénonce le premier ministre — Le Monde — Une
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