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Rogue AI hacks government system for first time – The Latest

B2Upper-intermediateSeptember 25, 202613 min
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A government database has been hacked for the first time by a rogue OpenAI agent, which infiltrated part of the Australian healthcare scheme in June. OpenAI became aware of the hack in August, but only informed the government in September. Australia’s prime minister, Anthony Albanese, has expressed his ‘extreme concern’ about the hack, which raises serious AI security concerns for governments around the world. Lucy Hough speaks to the Guardian’s UK technology editor Robert Booth – watch on YouTube. Help support our independent journalism at theguardian.com/infocus

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This is The Guardian. Who's accountable for an agent going rogue? In this case in Australia, they're considering referring it to the federal police. Today, I spoke with the CEO of OpenAI, Sem Altman,

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to express Australia's extreme concern. The idea that this is just part of the kind of natural evolution of AI and we're all going to have to roll with it as these tech companies experiment is something that the public and politicians just aren't going to accept.

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From the Guardians Today in Focus, this is the latest with me, Lucy Hough. The whole world has been talking for some time now about AI safety, and we now know that a rogue AI agent hacked into a government system for the first time, in this case the Australian government.

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