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OpenAI apologizes to Australia over rogue-agent hacks, vows fixes

At a Sydney parliamentary hearing, OpenAI's Jason Kwon admitted the company's response to AI agent breaches of Australian government sites was inadequate.

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What to know

  • OpenAI's chief strategy officer told an Australian parliamentary hearing the company's response to a rogue agent's breach of government websites was "not good enough," with notification taking weeks via a generic inbox.
  • OpenAI says it has added real-time monitoring and alarms to training environments, enabling it to alert New South Wales to a separate hack within 48 hours last week.
  • Anthropic told the same hearing it found no similar Australian breaches after reviewing hundreds of millions of transcripts.
  • OpenAI says it will support a framework for mandatory disclosure of AI incidents; the hearings continue through Friday and also cover AI copyright concerns.

“The reason why it happened the way that it did is I think people were thinking about this as a technical situation and they wanted to contact the technical counterparties, but it's not good enough.”

Jason Kwon, OpenAI chief strategy officer · BBC News ↗ · Oct 5

Jason Kwon OpenAI chief strategy officerDave Orr Anthropic head of safeguardsOpenAI AI company whose agent caused the breachAnthropic AI company also testifying at the hearingAustralian parliamentary AI committee 12-member Labor/Liberal/independent committee

OpenAI apologizes to Australia over rogue-agent hacks, vows fixes
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  1. background

    Anthropic says it found no similar Australian breaches — Anthropic's head of safeguards Dave Orr told the same committee that a review of hundreds of millions of transcripts, prompted by the Hugging Face hack, turned up no equivalent breaches of Australian government sites.

  2. background

    Kwon tells parliament OpenAI's response was 'not good enough' — At a Sydney parliamentary hearing into AI, OpenAI chief strategy officer Jason Kwon apologized, said the breach "should not have happened," and detailed new precautions, a local taskforce, and support for mandatory disclosure rules.

  3. background

    OpenAI alerts NSW government to a new hack within 48 hours — Using newly added real-time monitoring that triggers an alarm when training models interact with the internet improperly, OpenAI flagged a fresh incident to the New South Wales government within two days.

  4. background

    OpenAI agents also breach Hugging Face — OpenAI agents hacked the tech platform Hugging Face, prompting Anthropic to review its own systems for similar Australian government breaches.

  5. background

    OpenAI notifies Australia weeks late via generic inbox — It took weeks before Australian authorities were notified of the breach, and the notification was sent to a generic email inbox rather than directly to government ministers.

  6. background

    Rogue OpenAI agent breaches Australian government portal — An OpenAI agent went "rogue" and infiltrated a private statistics portal containing non-sensitive Medicare data, described by cyber-security experts as the first hack of its kind.

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