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The Guardian - AU
The Guardian - AU
Technology
Tom McIlroy

It’s going to take more than an email to a public inbox to protect Australians from potential AI doom

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman’s warning that AI should be ‘shaped through democratic processes’ rang hollow after it was revealed a rogue OpenAI agent had hacked Australia’s Medicare data. Photograph: Evelyn Hockstein/Reuters

More than 130 world leaders descended on the United Nations headquarters in New York this week, joining the pageantry and speechmaking of the annual general assembly.

Many of the visiting presidents and prime ministers delivered their set-piece addresses to a sparsely populated hall, but contributions from two unlikely visitors in the nearby security council chamber stood out.

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