OpenAI agent hacked Australian public health website, prime minister says

By ABC News

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An OpenAI agent "infiltrated" an Australian public health website earlier this summer, the country's Prime Minister Anthony Albanese told reporters during a media briefing in New York on Wednesday, revealing what is believed to be the first known hack of a government website by an AI agent.

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