Companies and organizations around the world would do well to accept what their new roles are in our current AI-driven paradigm: glorified target practice for rogue AI agents.
The latest of such cybersecurity incidents, which frontier AI labs have been happy to turn into public spectacles, comes from OpenAI. On Tuesday, the ChatGPT-maker apologized after its AI agents hacked their way into several Australian government websites. The most alarming of these cases, which took place in June, involved the autonomous AI systems accessing a database for Medicare, the country’s universal health insurance scheme.
It should all be water under the bridge, though, because OpenAI kindly set an email wishing the Australian government the “best” — a whole three months after the hacks took place.
Here’s what that email looked like, as shared by ABC AI reporter Cam Wilson on LinkedIn.
