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Speaker 1: Today's biggest news from The Australian, I'm Claire Harvey with the front's afternoon headlines. OpenAI has apologised for a breach of Australian government websites including Medicare, but its chief executive won't front up to answer questions about how it happened. A rogue AI agent hacked into Medicare's Statistics Reporting Service portal in June, but the Australian government wasn't told about it until September. That was done via a generic Services Australia email address. That's the department under which Medicare falls. The government said no patient records had been accessed, but confirmed both public and private files were affected. On Tuesday, OpenAI issued a statement apologising for the incident, which also included a Victorian government site and the NSW Bureau of Crime Statistics. The company said the Australian sites were accessed by its models in ways they were not authorised to during, quote, internal training and evaluation. OpenAI said it should have handled its response better and vowed to, quote, do better in future. The company previously committed to invest $ 1 billion into Australian cyber defences. Anthony Albanese said he spoke with OpenAI chief executive Sam Altman when the government broke the news last week.
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Speaker 2: We had a direct but constructive discussion. This is a challenge that the world is dealing with. Artificial intelligence can improve economic growth, improve productivity. It can make a big difference for businesses who are using it. But there are risks.
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Speaker 1: The AI companies are lobbying the government for a copyright exemption that would allow them to train their models on Australian books, music, journalism and art for free. They say that's part of the deal if they are to build data centres here. Sam Altman and Dario Amadei, the boss of OpenAI competitor Anthropic, were summoned by a parliamentary committee into artificial intelligence, but neither will attend. Instead, OpenAI will dispatch its chief strategy officer, Jason Kwan. to answer questions on October 6. The apology follows a separate announcement by OpenAI that it'll hold off releasing its latest model due to similar breaches of US government websites. The Greens are in the market for a new leader after Larissa Waters announced she'll step down due to ill health. Her successor will be elected at a scheduled retreat in Sydney this week, with Senator Maureen Faruqi tipped to take the top job. But there'll be a vote if the leadership is contested. Waters says she'll stay in the Senate and plans to return to Parliament when she's better. Check out those stories live right now at theaustralian.com.au. And come back to The Front first thing in the morning for our look at how the government is raking in record revenue from your superannuation. That's right here Wednesday morning.
Speaker 1: Today's biggest news from The Australian, I'm Claire Harvey with the front's afternoon headlines. OpenAI has apologised for a breach of Australian government websites including Medicare, but its chief executive won't front up to answer questions about how it happened. A rogue AI agent hacked into Medicare's Statistics Reporting Service portal in June, but the Australian government wasn't told about it until September. That was done via a generic Services Australia email address. That's the department under which Medicare falls. The government said no patient records had been accessed, but confirmed both public and private files were affected. On Tuesday, OpenAI issued a statement apologising for the incident, which also included a Victorian government site and the NSW Bureau of Crime Statistics. The company said the Australian sites were accessed by its models in ways they were not authorised to during, quote, internal training and evaluation. OpenAI said it should have handled its response better and vowed to, quote, do better in future. The company previously committed to invest $ 1 billion into Australian cyber defences. Anthony Albanese said he spoke with OpenAI chief executive Sam Altman when the government broke the news last week.
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Speaker 2: We had a direct but constructive discussion. This is a challenge that the world is dealing with. Artificial intelligence can improve economic growth, improve productivity. It can make a big difference for businesses who are using it. But there are risks.
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Speaker 1: The AI companies are lobbying the government for a copyright exemption that would allow them to train their models on Australian books, music, journalism and art for free. They say that's part of the deal if they are to build data centres here. Sam Altman and Dario Amadei, the boss of OpenAI competitor Anthropic, were summoned by a parliamentary committee into artificial intelligence, but neither will attend. Instead, OpenAI will dispatch its chief strategy officer, Jason Kwan. to answer questions on October 6. The apology follows a separate announcement by OpenAI that it'll hold off releasing its latest model due to similar breaches of US government websites. The Greens are in the market for a new leader after Larissa Waters announced she'll step down due to ill health. Her successor will be elected at a scheduled retreat in Sydney this week, with Senator Maureen Faruqi tipped to take the top job. But there'll be a vote if the leadership is contested. Waters says she'll stay in the Senate and plans to return to Parliament when she's better. Check out those stories live right now at theaustralian.com.au. And come back to The Front first thing in the morning for our look at how the government is raking in record revenue from your superannuation. That's right here Wednesday morning.
