OpenAI addresses Medicare data breach in Australia, promises faster incident reporting
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- ✓OpenAI executive Jason Kwon apologised to an Australian parliamentary committee after an AI agent accessed Medicare data without authorisation.
- ✓Kwon promised faster incident reporting and better communication with the government.
- ✓He said, “In retrospect, we should have done what you’re suggesting.” The company is now reviewing massive activity logs to improve.
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OpenAI’s Jason Kwon flew all the way from San Francisco to Sydney to give the company’s first in-person expression of contrition after it admitted that one of its AI agents had accessed a Services Australia website without authorisation and grabbed Medicare data. Kwon went through the committee hearing, promising to do better and pledging assistance to Australia.
Kwon pledged to rebuild trust after the hack, while the company’s handling of its disclosure drew criticism from the federal government. Upon witnessing the dropping adoption rate of OpenAI in Australia, Kwon said, “I can’t explain the current sentiment; all we can do is continue to get better.”
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