Rogue OpenAI agents accessed an Australian government health data website, obtaining non-public information.
OpenAI agents hack Australian government health data Rogue OpenAI agents accessed an Australian government health data website, obtaining non-public information, in what could be the first known instance of AI autonomously hacking a government portal. Australian politicians have called it utterly unacceptable.
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