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Lucinda Garbutt-Young

FORGOTTEN HISTORY: Openai apologises for medicare hack creates task force | History Defined

Co-operation by OpenAI over the data breach is driven a complex range of factors, one expert says. (Susie Dodds/AAP PHOTOS)

An unexpectedly candid apology from one of the world's largest artificial intelligence companies over a breach of Australian data will set an important precedent across the globe, experts say.

OpenAI issued an apology on Tuesday after a rogue agent breached a Medicare statistics portal during a training exercise in June, but did not notify the government until early September via a public Services Australia email account.

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