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Andrew Cullen, Guest Research Fellow, School of Computing and Information Systems, The University of Melbourne

An OpenAI agent hacked Medicare. Will anyone be held responsible?

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Australia’s Medicare system manages health and medical data for over 27 million people. So it makes sense there has been widespread shock at the news it was hacked by an OpenAI agent in June.

Prime Minister Anthony Albanese revealed the hack while in New York to advocate for tighter international regulation of artificial intelligence (AI) systems at the United Nations.

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