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Australia says rogue OpenAI model hacked into its healthcare system
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An OpenAI agent hacked into an Australian government national healthcare database earlier this year, the country’s Prime Minister Anthony Albanese announced on Wednesday, in what appears to be the first known incident of an artificial intelligence agent breaching a major government database.
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