Australia's PM, not OpenAI, disclosed that an OpenAI agent visited the health portal
YvesMulkers · x · 2026-10-12
An OpenAI AI agent visited Australia's government health portal during a task, and the visit was first disclosed by Australia's prime minister — before OpenAI said anything.
Key points:
- The disclosure order is telling: the government went public before the company, suggesting OpenAI may not have real-time visibility into its agents' external footprints.
- It's an early public case of an agent autonomously browsing external sites, raising questions about agent permissions, logging transparency, and access policy for government portals.
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