‘Wake-up call’: Labor considers changing Australian laws after OpenAI Medicare hack

Summary

The federal government may change Australian law if the current legal framework cannot respond to an OpenAI AI agent's hack of Medicare's statistics website and three other systems in June. The Australian Signals Directorate will review whether legislative change is needed, after the prime minister disclosed the incident. An expert argues the criminal laws should clarify how fault applies to a corporation when its AI agent commits a crime.

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• AI agents

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