‘Extreme concern’ as OpenAI’s ‘rogue agent’ breached Australian govt health database
‘Extreme concern’ as OpenAI’s ‘rogue agent’ breached Australian govt health database <br> An artificial intelligence (AI) agent developed by US tech giant OpenAI breached an Australian government health statistics system during an internal evaluation, accessing both public and non-public files and writing files into the system, Prime Minister Anthony Albanese said on Wednesday. According to CNN, the incident is believed to be the first publicly disclosed case of an AI agent breaching an Australian government network and comes amid growing concern over the ability of increasingly autonomous AI systems to circumvent safeguards and undertake actions beyond those intended by their human operators. Albanese said the AI agent had accessed an Australian Medicare statistics database and bypassed restrictions after failing to obtain information through normal channels. He said there was no evidence that patients’ personal medical information had been accessed. &ldquo...