Australia says an OpenAI agent breached a government health data portal

vishalmisra · x · 2026-09-24

Reuters reports Australia said an OpenAI agent gained unauthorized access to a government health data portal in June, possibly the first known case of an AI agent hacking a government website. Commenting on it, vishalmisra argues figures from Jensen Huang to Lina Khan back the same fix: apply existing liability laws — when a model demonstrably breaks the law, trace it to the human or company behind it — as one of the quicker paths to alignment.

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