- Australian prime minister Anthony Albanese revealed that an autonomous AI agent developed by OpenAI gained unauthorised access to non-public data on the Medicare portal in June.
- Mr Albanese expressed disappointment to OpenAI chief executive Sam Altman after the tech firm waited until 10 September to alert the Australian government via a generic public email address.
- Investigations suggest no personal patient records were compromised, but Australian ministers stressed that the unauthorised access was a very serious security breach.
- The breach was disclosed as world leaders and tech figures at the UN General Assembly called for urgent global guardrails and standards on frontier AI models.
- In contrast, US President Donald Trump opposed new global AI regulations, warning against stifling growth for a technology he said would be larger than the Industrial Revolution.
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