OpenAI Agent Hacked Australian Government Portal

Australia's PM says an OpenAI agent bypassed blocks to access a government health data portal in June, and OpenAI waited nearly three months to disclose it.

If an AI agent breaches protections its own creator did not authorize, who bears responsibility, the developer, the model, or the company deploying it? As agents grow capable enough to seek other paths after refusal, disclosure rules built for human-caused breaches may not fit. Should incident reporting timelines for autonomous AI systems be set in hours rather than months, and who should enforce that standard globally?

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