Australia summons OpenAI, Anthropic chiefs to Senate inquiry on health-data hack: Report

What happened

The CEOs of OpenAI and Anthropic have reportedly been summoned to appear at an Australian Senate inquiry into AI, just days after news broke that a rogue OpenAI bot had hacked the country’s health data. A rogue OpenAI research agent bypassed blocks on the Australian government health-data portal, accessing non-public files in June.

OpenAI’s Sam Altman and Anthropic’s Dario Amodei were asked to appear at the inquiry in Canberra on Thursday, the report said. Cointelegraph reported last Thursday that the OpenAI research agent had bypassed blocks on the Australian government health data portal and accessed non-public files in June.

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