'Artists are the first to be thrown under the bus' H Morgan-Harris (right) and Ran Stanton at Tortuga Studios in St Peters, in Anthony Albanese's electorate. 'Artists are the first to be thrown under the bus' H Morgan-Harris (right) and Ran Stanton at Tortuga Studios in St Peters, in Anthony Albanese's electorate. Disquiet grows in Albanese's back yard as Grayndler artists unite against'insane' AI proposal The prime minister is facing growing discontent within his own electorate as creatives push back against the federal government's proposal to allow AI companies to scrape everything Australians create online. Anthony Albanese's seat of Grayndler in Sydney's inner west is home to more than 3,000 cultural and creative businesses, and 10% of its workers are employed in cultural and creative fields - compared with 4.2% nationally. He has held it on a safe margin for three decades, and has spoken of its high representation of live music, theatre and artist spaces with pride .

As increasingly frequent acts of violence against politicians have shocked the globe in recent years, Australia has watched on with a contradictory feeling: that attacks like that could not happen here, and that it was only a matter of time until they did. Australians will tell you this is a largely peaceful society with a comparatively civil public discourse. Violence targeting politicians has been rare, the bungled assassination of Labor leader Arthur Calwell in 1966 now a distant and fleeting memory. But MPs and public figures - backed by experts - have been warning of a volcano of threats against them as social cohesion cracks, polarisation intensifies and the tone of debate grows hotter. And on Monday, their worst fears appear to have been realised.

Prime minister Anthony Albanese (left) previously said he had expressed'Australia's extreme concern about the incident' to OpenAI CEO Sam Altman. Prime minister Anthony Albanese (left) previously said he had expressed'Australia's extreme concern about the incident' to OpenAI CEO Sam Altman. Executive to front parliamentary committee on AI as ministers reveal how brief message telling them about hack was signed off'best' OpenAI has apologised to Australians for its agent attack on Medicare, and will front parliament next week as the tech company revealed more details about its June hack of Australian government websites. Ministers on Tuesday evening released a brief, five paragraph email which OpenAI used to inform the Australian government about the attack. The email was sent to a public inbox monitored by Services Australia on 10 September - nearly three months after the AI agent accessed the website on 18 June - and was signed off with the closing "best".

The country's prime minister expressed disappointment at being informed of the hack only via email. Now Australia is investigating whether OpenAI broke the law. Australia is investigating whether OpenAI broke the law after an agent hacked into its health statistics portal, in the first widely known incident of an AI agent hacking a government website. The Australian government is reviewing whether it should involve the federal police after the agent accessed non-public files from the social and health services agency, Services Australia, in June. Australia only found out about the incident when OpenAI alerted the government on September 10-almost three months after the hack-by sending an email to a public mailbox.

Share How an OpenAI'agent' hacked Australia's Medicare and what that means on social media Australian authorities have raised the alarm after OpenAI-powered models hacked into a government health data system in June, slipping past its digital defences and accessing files without authorisation. This is the first publicly known case of artificial intelligence (AI) "agents" - AI-powered software systems that can carry out tasks autonomously - breaking into a government website, and the latest of several AI breaches of external systems. Global powers must cooperate to ensure this, they have said. A research scientist at AI firm Anthropic, Evan Hubinger, went so far as to say he believes there is a greater than 10 percent chance AI could "kill all humans" within a decade. Addressing the United Nations Security Council on Wednesday, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman said there is a risk of AI moving "so fast that people can no longer follow what's happening or intervene when needed".

An OpenAI agent hacked into the public website of the Australian government's Medicare public health insurance system in June, Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has revealed. Albanese said he spoke with Sam Altman, the company's CEO, to express the country's "extreme concern" about the incident. He also criticized the company for taking too long to notify Australian authorities. According to The Guardian, OpenAI only sent an email about the breach to a general Australian government email address on September 10. And since authorities only check that account once a day, they didn't see it until September 11.

AI at School Mashable's Best: E-readers, robovacs, laptops, earbuds, smart home and more Mashable Selects Look Up Say More Safety Net Versus Creator Playbook In My Bag Trending Now Back to School Good Connection: Uplifting stories for a digital age All Series The AI model autonomously breached government systems to gain access to non-public information. Amanda Yeo is an Assistant Editor at Mashable, covering entertainment, culture, tech, science, and social good. Based in Australia, she writes about everything from video games and K-pop to movies and gadgets. An OpenAI agent has hacked the Australian government's healthcare system, gaining unauthorised access to non-public information as well as writing files to the server. SEE ALSO: Anthropic researcher quits, says AI'could kill us all by the end of the decade' Australian prime minister Anthony Albanese announced the breach at a press conference on Thursday .

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.

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."

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.