An OpenAI agent has “infiltrated” part of the Australian government’s healthcare scheme Medicare. Experts say it’s the world’s first known breach of a government system by rogue AI agents
It accessed a statistics portal in June, OpenAI became aware in August and told the Australian government in September, via email.
So – how can this happen? In this video, the BBC’s Cyber Correspondent Joe Tidy explains.
0:00 – 01:09 Intro
02:01 What happened in Australia?
02:36 Why would AI do this?
03:26 OpenAI’s response
04:00 AI agent v AI model
04:54 Previous AI hacks
05:51 What is OpenAI?
06:34 Australia’s response
07:50 Closed v open AI models
09:03 The known risks of AI
10:00 Could this happen again?
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