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Australian law, policy and proposed rules governing artificial intelligence developers, data use and AI infrastructure.
OpenAI emailed Services Australia on 10 September about its AI agent's 18 June intrusion, using a public inbox checked once a day. How it handled that notice is now before a parliamentary inquiry, and a minister is citing the episode as he argues for new AI rules.
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OpenAI apologised to Australian MPs for taking weeks to report, via a generic inbox, that its agent had breached a Medicare statistics portal in June. Its account of why makes breach notification an executive decision for anyone running AI agents.
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OpenAI backed mandatory disclosure at an Australian inquiry after taking three months to report its agent's breach of the health portal. Until a law sets a deadline, the vendor decides whether and when authorities hear what its agents did.
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Australia's parliamentary AI committee will use four days of hearings this week to question OpenAI over its agent's access to Medicare data. Members are pressing on how slowly the company told the government as well as on the access itself, so disclosure speed is now something agent vendors answer for.
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Anthropic told an Australian inquiry a broad copyright exemption is off the table and proposed opt-out 'conditional approval' for AI training instead. The ABC and SBS want the onus on AI firms, so the inquiry is now deciding who pays to police training bots.
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