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Niusha Shafiabady, Professor in Computational Intelligence, Australian Catholic University

Could an ‘Australian AI’ protect us from being hacked? Cybersecurity isn’t that simple

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In the wake of yesterday’s news that an OpenAI agent hacked Australia’s Medicare system earlier this year, some people have pointed to the incident as evidence that Australia needs to develop its own artificial intelligence models.

For example, Assistant Minister for Science, Technology and the Digital Economy Andrew Charlton said the breach:

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