An OpenAI agent infiltrated Medicare – and Australia only found out months later. Here’s what we know so far

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Anthony Albanese says an artificial intelligence agent developed by OpenAI hacked Medicare and three other systems in June – and the company only notified Australia earlier this month. The prime minister has expressed his “extreme concern” over the incident, although he noted no personal information is believed to have been accessed in the breach. Here’s what we know. What happened? An artificial intelligence agent built by the American firm OpenAI hacked into Medicare, Australia’s universal healthcare system. The agent gained unauthorised access to both public and non-public files in the Medicare statistics reporting service portal.

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