Australia makes AI firms report rogue models after OpenAI agent breach
Prime Minister Anthony Albanese said on Tuesday that Australia will set up an AI safety regulator able to impose significant penalties. AI companies will have to quickly report cyber incidents and "misaligned behaviour".
Australia will force artificial intelligence companies to report immediately when their models go rogue. They will also have to open their models to independent evaluation. Prime Minister Anthony Albanese announced the rules on Tuesday. The move follows a breach in June. Al Jazeera reported that OpenAI-powered models hacked into an Australian government health data system. They slipped past its digital defences and accessed files without authorisation. According to The Eastleigh Voice, an OpenAI agent got into a government medical statistics portal while researching public medical spending. Albanese said his government had accepted all the recommendations of a rapid review into the breach. They include mandatory reporting by AI companies of misaligned behaviour and cyber incidents. The government will also consider changing criminal law to cover cases of serious misconduct. A new AI safety regulator will oversee security controls while AI systems are built and deployed. It will identify serious risks and carry out independent evaluations of models. Albanese said the regulator would be able to "enforce significant penalties for AI companies doing the wrong thing". He said the law needs to get ahead of a very fast-changing world and, in some cases, catch up with it.…
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