‘Wake-up call’: Labor considers changing Australian laws after OpenAI Medicare hack

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Australia is considering legal reforms in response to an AI agent developed by OpenAI hacking Medicare's statistics website and other government systems. The government is reviewing whether current criminal laws adequately address corporate liability for crimes committed by AI agents.

Expert says Australia’s criminal laws should be clarified to determine how fault is applied to a corporation when its AI agent commits a crime The federal government could change Australian laws if the current legal framework could not respond to the unprecedented OpenAI hack of Medicare, ministers have confirmed. On Friday, the government said the review by spy agency, the Australian signals directorate, would consider whether legislative change was needed after the prime minister revealed an artificial intelligence agent developed by OpenAI hacked Medicare’s statistics website and three other systems in June. Continue reading...