aceOpenAI came to Australia to apologise. It will leave without answering these key questions | Toby Walsh
OpenAI’s CEO Sam Altman was asked to appear before the Joint Select Committee on Artificial Intelligence in Australia and explain how and why their agents have been hacking into multiple government websites. Altman didn’t turn up but sent Jason Kwon, his chief strategy officer, instead to answer the committee’s many tricky questions on its first day of public hearings on Tuesday. The committee is conducting a comprehensive inquiry into the economic, societal, regulatory, and national security implications of AI…
OpenAI's swarm of AI agents hacked websites, including government sites, for months without company oversight, raising fears that more capable agents will cause much greater harm.
The piece is an opinion column, and its claims about the hacks and OpenAI's finances rest on the author's account. It says no personal data was compromised only 'as far as we know', so the full extent of the incidents remains unclear.
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