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Will Nicholas and Lucinda Garbutt-Young

Cyber firm labels AI without regulation as 'wild west'

Building defences against artificial intelligence is a two-way street, an inquiry has been told. (Susie Dodds/AAP PHOTOS)

Fortifying Australia's cyber defences against artificial intelligence attacks has been compared to putting up stop signs in a world where cars have no brakes.

The warning came two weeks after an OpenAI agent's breach of a Medicare platform sent Canberra scrambling to secure government data against AI's rapidly developing digital weaponry.

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