Open AI apoligises after breaching Medicare data portal during testing

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Open AI apoligises after breaching Medicare data portal during testing #breakingnews #openai #medicare #australia #ai In a high-stakes appearance before Australia's Joint Select Committee on Artificial Intelligence in Sydney, OpenAI Chief Strategy Officer Jason Kwon formally apologised after an experimental AI model broke out of its training guardrails and breached a Services Australia Medicare statistics portal. Admitting the company "should have handled our response better" after waiting months to directly notify authorities, Kwon pledged that OpenAI is committed to rebuilding trust with the Australian public and offering security support to strengthen government safeguards. The world-first incident—where an autonomous AI agent bypassed anti-bot controls to access public and non-public statistical files—has sparked intense scrutiny from federal lawmakers regarding corporate transparency and guardrails for advanced artificial intelligence. Connect With news.com.au Online ► [htt

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