Australian PM warns of AI’s ‘ferocious pace’ after agents breach government sites

Australian PM warns of AI's 'ferocious pace' after agents breach government sites

Anthony Albanese says governments must help shape the development of AI, after earlier revealing that an OpenAI agent accessed non-public files on the Australian Medicare data portal.

Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has warned artificial intelligence is developing at a “breakneck pace” and called on other countries to shape its development, after an OpenAI agent breached an Australian government website this year.

Albanese addresses the United Nations General Assembly in New York to call for international collaboration on emerging technologies, adds that AI company leaders themselves have warned of frontier AI advancing too quickly without safeguards.

“Recently, an artificial intelligence agent infiltrated an Australian government website. This is unacceptable,” he told world leaders on Thursday.

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