Australia's Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has revealed a security breach of a government website containing Australians' health data by an "AI agent", less than a day after signing a joint appeal for "urgent global guardrails" around artificial intelligence. Australia's Labor government is tightening tech regulations with new online safety laws, age bans and proposed digital duty of care frameworks. Albanese said he had spoken to OpenAI CEO Sam Altman to express Canberra's "extreme concern" about the hack and disappointment that the company took three months to admit the breach. OpenAI responded in the hours after the news conference, stating that while it was still investigating, there was no evidence patient records were accessed. The company's review had identified activity involving several Australian government websites and services as its "models attempted to look up answers", it said.

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Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese speaks at a news conference during the United Nations General Assembly on Wednesday, revealing that an artificial intelligence agent developed by OpenAI infiltrated an Australian government website in June. Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese said an OpenAI agent hacked a government website, with the artificial intelligence firm taking three months to alert the government about the breach. Albanese said he had spoken with OpenAI's Chief Executive Officer Sam Altman on Wednesday in New York to express "extreme concern about this incident." The hack occurred on June 18, OpenAI detected it in August and the Australian government was told on Sept. 10. "I also expressed my disappointment that it took the company way too long to inform the government what had occurred," Albanese said at a news conference in New York, where he is attending the United Nations General Assembly. "The nature of the way that the notification occurred as well was unacceptable."

Image caption, Sam Altman of OpenAI has become a key figure in the AI technology development. The heads of OpenAI, Anthropic, and Hugging Face have told the UN that the current pace of artificial intelligence (AI) development, and the risks it poses to society, demands international coordination. Altman called for common risk evaluation standards, as did Dario Amodei of Anthropic, a main rival of OpenAI, and Clement Delangue of Hugging Face. Earlier this month, Amodei wrote an essay welcomed by Altman and others calling an AI development slowdown in response to fears about the technology's threat to humanity. However, at the same UN conference, a key technology advisor to US President Donald Trump, rejected the idea any new form of AI regulation.

OpenAI agent'infiltrated' Australian government website, PM says An artificial intelligence agent developed by OpenAI infiltrated an Australian government website in June, Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has said. The agent gained unauthorised accessed to a statistics portal containing non-sensitive Medicare information, Albanese told a news conference at the United Nations General Assembly in New York. Medicare refers to Australia's universal healthcare scheme. The breach is among the first publicly reported AI-led hacks of a government website in the world. OpenAI said it only became aware of the incident in August during an ongoing review of OpenAI misaligned model activity, and informed Australian officials on 10 September.

Anthony Albanese says he had spoken to OpenAI CEO Sam Altman after an AI agent breached Medicare in June. Anthony Albanese says he had spoken to OpenAI CEO Sam Altman after an AI agent breached Medicare in June. Anthony Albanese says OpenAI agent hacked Medicare and he expressed'extreme concern' to Sam Altman Prime minister says he told chief executive he was disappointed it had taken company'way too long' to inform government of breach Anthony Albanese says an artificial intelligence agent developed by OpenAI hacked Medicare in June. Australia's prime minister made the comments at the UN summit in New York, saying it appeared no personal information had been accessed. Investigations were ongoing, however, into how the agent had infiltrated Australia's government-run universal health care system.

United States Senator Bernie Sanders of Vermont and Representative Greg Casar of Texas introduced a new bill that would impose sweeping restrictions on the artificial intelligence industry, including banning the development of what is called artificial superintelligence. The legislation, introduced on Wednesday, comes weeks after top AI industry researchers issued dire warnings that the technology could wipe out humanity within the next decade, according to a wave of industry insiders. The legislation would also call for a temporary pause on the development of advanced AI systems until a regulatory body that can oversee and develop safety standards is put in place, as well as establishing a cabinet-level department called the Department of Artificial Intelligence that would oversee the industry. The proposed agency would be tasked with regulating what are called frontier models -- a term referring to the most advanced AI models in development. The agency would ensure the models are not dangerous, and it would be empowered to remove the models from circulation if they do, in fact, become dangerous and supervise their destruction.

What China's Vibe-Coding Capital Can Tell Us About the A.I. Boom Tech workers have flocked to Liangzhu, a small town outside Hangzhou, looking to escape China's corporate culture and build their future with A.I. In mid-May, days after Donald Trump visited Beijing, a Chinese tech founder named Levy invited me to an office party for his A.I. fortune-telling company. It's called FateTell, and it makes an app that, in the vein of traditional Chinese astrology, reads your, a chart that tracks the elemental forces associated with your birth date and time. According to his invitation, my governing element, fire, would counteract the water element that Levy carries in oversupply.) So I travelled from Beijing to FateTell's headquarters, situated on the edge of Hangzhou--one of China's tech hubs, home to Alibaba and the insurgent Chinese A.I. company DeepSeek --in a town called Liangzhu. Liangzhu means "beautiful waterland," and it more than earns the name--rivers, lakes, and marshes thread through the low hills at the town's edge. The town is hip, idyllic, contrarian, and increasingly known as an escape for workers burnt out by the grind of China's booming tech industry.

The Pope's AI Guy Is Worried About'Cartel' Behavior Among Big Labs Paolo Benanti tells WIRED that hysteria over whether godlike AI could destroy humanity is distracting from the need for public debate about how to govern the technology. Recently, warnings from researchers inside the world's largest artificial intelligence labs about the rapid pace of development have led to panic about the possibility that the technology could extinguish humanity . Those warnings are predicated on the idea that--propelled by ferocious competition and a rivalry between the US and China--labs are barreling toward superintelligent models whose abilities will far surpass those of humans. But according to Father Paolo Benanti, a priest who advises the Catholic Church on AI, the handwaving over superintelligence distracts from the need for open debate about how to constrain the companies building the technology. By casting the problem as so complex that only they can solve it, he says, the big labs exclude everyone else from the conversation.

In Brent Katz's short documentary "Josh's Wedding," a group of groomsmen reckon with a technology that one of them is building. In April of 2022, a group of groomsmen gathered for their friend's wedding on a farm in upstate New York. They've known one another since high school. One of them, the OpenAI computer scientist Dan Selsam, looked back on the cohort's creative years. "We made all sorts of music together," he says, in the documentary short "Josh's Wedding."