Kate Crawford: OpenAI incident tests whether Australia can hold US tech giants accountable
nordicinst · x · 2026-09-25
In a Guardian op-ed, Kate Crawford and Edward Santow argue that an AI-related security incident touching Australia's Medicare system is a test of whether the government can hold a US tech giant accountable. Writing during UN General Assembly week amid global calls for frontier-model oversight, they insist AI companies must face consequences like human hackers do, and that Australia should only do business with companies that build safe, law-abiding systems.
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