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The Guardian - AU
The Guardian - AU
Technology
Ben Doherty in Sydney

OpenAI hack on Australian government reveals anxiety at heart of global artificial intelligence dilemma

Sam Altman pictured seated at a desk with his name card at the UN general assembly
Sam Altman, the CEO of OpenAI, during a meeting on artificial intelligence at the UN general assembly on Wednesday. Australia’s government healthcare system was hacked by an OpenAI agent in June, it was revealed this week. Photograph: Yuki Iwamura/AP

When the Australian prime minister, Anthony Albanese, sat down for an interview in the heart of Silicon Valley at the weekend he had known for two days that his was the first government known to have been attacked by a rogue AI agent.

He didn’t reveal the attack then, but he sounded a warning about the march of AI: “the risk is that AI develops in a way in which humans are no longer in control of what AI is producing.”

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