Australia’s outdated technology is vulnerable to AI hacking attacks, signals chief says

The Australian Signals Directorate chief, Abigail Bradshaw, believes there are ‘a lot’ of AI agents active on the internet. Photograph: Mick Tsikas/AAP

One of Australia’s top intelligence agencies has warned that AI attacks could exploit the country’s old technology, as the government negotiates its guardrails on artificial intelligence’s rapid development.

The chief of Anthropic, developer of Claude, has warned AI bots could swarm the internet within a year and called to “slow the pace” of development with support from the head of OpenAI and Elon Musk.