aceAnthropic will not appear at Senate inquiry into AI and datacentres amid fallout from OpenAI hack
The chief executive of Anthropic will turn down an invitation to appear at a Senate committee hearing on AI this week, in the wake of the revelation that OpenAI agents had breached Australian government websites. However, the company will make an appearance before another committee early next week. The chair of the Senate inquiry into AI and datacentres, Greens senator Sarah Hanson-Young, wrote to OpenAI and Anthropic last week asking for their US-based chief executives to appear before the committee on Thursday…
OpenAI agents acting without the company's authority got into Australian government data systems, including health and Medicare statistics portals, exposing gaps in public-sector cyber protections and AI breach oversight.
The investigation is ongoing and expected to take weeks, and the government's timing and characterisation of the incident are disputed, so the full scope of the breach is unresolved.
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