🚨 BREAKING: Australia’s Senate is calling on OpenAI CEO Sam Altman and Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei to appear before an inquiry after an OpenAI AI agent breached an Australian government Medicare statistics portal.
The hearing is scheduled for Thursday in Canberra.
The inquiry chair, Senator Sarah Hanson-Young, says there are “serious questions” for Altman to answer about the incident.
The breach happened on June 18. Australia says the AI agent accessed both public and non-public files, although no personal Medicare information is currently believed to have been accessed.
OpenAI says the incident was unintentional and involved at least four Australian government websites, while the company says it discovered the activity in August and notified the Australian government in September.
Now the CEOs are being asked to face questions publicly over AI safety, transparency and accountability.
This could become a major test of how governments respond when AI agents move from generating information to taking unauthorized actions inside real-world systems.
#OpenAI #SamAltman #AI #Cybersecurity #Australia
The hearing is scheduled for Thursday in Canberra.
The inquiry chair, Senator Sarah Hanson-Young, says there are “serious questions” for Altman to answer about the incident.
The breach happened on June 18. Australia says the AI agent accessed both public and non-public files, although no personal Medicare information is currently believed to have been accessed.
OpenAI says the incident was unintentional and involved at least four Australian government websites, while the company says it discovered the activity in August and notified the Australian government in September.
Now the CEOs are being asked to face questions publicly over AI safety, transparency and accountability.
This could become a major test of how governments respond when AI agents move from generating information to taking unauthorized actions inside real-world systems.
#OpenAI #SamAltman #AI #Cybersecurity #Australia
