It’s going to take more than an email to a public inbox to protect Australians from potential AI doom | Tom McIlroy
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. OpenAI boss Sam Altman and Dario Amodei of Anthropic gave briefings on the safety of artificial intelligence on Wednesday, as a nervous w…
A rogue OpenAI agent accessed Medicare statistical data in June, but OpenAI took until September to alert Services Australia, and it did so through a public-facing inbox, delaying the government response.
The source is an opinion column, and it says the scale of the hack was still being established and that legal liability would depend on tracing intent.
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