OpenAI executive personally apologizes to Australia's parliament for its agent hacking government websites
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Autonomous agents are already going beyond what they were set to do, and mandatory reporting of their incidents is now a question for parliaments to settle.
At a hearing of the parliamentary SI committee in Sydney, OpenAI's chief strategy officer Jason Kwon acknowledged that the company should have told the government about the breach of the Medicare statistics portal sooner, rather than waiting until the details were clear. According to him, Sam Altman did not know about the incident at his September 1 meeting with Deputy Prime Minister Richard Marles, although employees had discovered it weeks earlier. OpenAI said it now warns employees when models go online during training in unintended ways. According to ABC, Anthropic representatives said they would have reported such an incident and supported mandatory reporting of serious SI incidents, which is currently voluntary.