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Politics
Will Nicholas

INSANE: Governments ai hack reveal all in the timing | Rare Historical Photos

An OpenAI agent infiltrated a Medicare data portal in June. (Susie Dodds/AAP PHOTOS)

Getting hacked by a rogue artificial intelligence agent shouldn't spook Australia into adopting a hostile stance towards the technology, the government has been warned.

An OpenAI agent infiltrated a Medicare data portal on June 18 in the first known instance of autonomous software breaching an Australian government website.

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