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Why did an OpenAI system hack Australia's health system - and can it be stopped in the future?
News that an automated AI agent hacked a government IT system raises big questions about regulating the tech.
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The hack was carried out by an AI agent - an autonomous computer program that uses AI to complete a task with minimal human oversight.
On 18 June one of OpenAI's agents went rogue during a test exercise - the company has said it was was supposed to "look up answers, and available statistics for questions about Australia during an internal evaluation".
In the process it "infiltrated" a private statistics portal containing "non-sensitive" data from Australia's universal healthcare scheme Medicare…
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