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The Guardian - AU
The Guardian - AU
Technology
Tess Ikonomou and Josh Butler

MYSTERIOUS: Australia to introduce mandatory reporting after openai hack to combat artificial intelligence going rogue - What They Never Told You

Australian prime minister Anthony Albanese
Prime minister Anthony Albanese has announced new AI safety and security protections after the OpenAI hack of Medicare. Photograph: Sarah Wilson/AAP

OpenAI will not face criminal penalties over the Medicare data breach, but the prime minister has flagged changes to Australia’s criminal law to crack down on future breaches by artificial intelligence companies.

Anthony Albanese on Tuesday released the recommendations of a “rapid review” into the June breach of a Medicare statistics reporting service portal administered by Services Australia, but not the findings or the report itself, which he committed to releasing in the future.

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