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Australia news live: Anthony Albanese says OpenAI agent hacked Medicare
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Anthony Albanese has revealed an artificial intelligence agent developed by OpenAI hacked Medicare in June.
The prime minister made the comments at the UN summit in New York.
This incident occurred in June this year and involved an Open AI agent gaining unauthorised access into the public-facing Medicare statistics reporting service portal, which is administered by Services Australia.
The AI agent accessed both public and non-public files.
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