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OpenAI Used AI to Help Write Australia Breach Email Despite Telling Inquiry Otherwise

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OpenAI used AI to help draft the email notifying Australia of a breach in which its agent accessed a Medicare statistics portal and three other government systems during a June internal evaluation, despite telling a parliamentary inquiry it did not believe AI was used. The breach was discovered in August and reported on Sept. 10, with no evidence of personal information being accessed and the Australian Signals Directorate assisting an investigation.

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  1. SOURCE@intcyberdigest“OpenAI told a parliamentary inquiry they didn't believe AI was used.”x.com
  2. SUPPORT@ajenglish“Executives from OpenAI and Anthropic faced tough questions at a parliamentary inquiry in Sydney.”x.com
  3. SUPPORT@choblin29“OpenAI says Sam Altman was unaware of the Medicare breach when he met Australia's deputy prime minister on September 1, after the company had already discovered the incident in August.”x.com
  4. SUPPORT@hesamation“OpenAI just apologized before Australia’s parliament for the cyber incidents.”x.com
  5. SUPPORT@lukolejnik“OpenAI now admits "our models took actions we did not intend" but says its review found "no evidence of patient records being accessed".”x.com
  6. SUPPORT@_nathancalvin“OpenAI accessed non-public aggregate health statistics and internal files from an old Australian government website that carried Medicare statistics...”x.com
  7. SUPPORT@suchenzang“This was some agent browsing sites and accessed files that were public but not directly linked from main site. They are very carefully calling them "non-public" instead of "secure" or "password protected".”x.com
  8. SUPPORT@nptacek“Sam Altman & Dario Amodei decline to appear before an Australian Senate AI inquiry called in the wake of an OpenAI model hacking a government website.”x.com
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