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‘Wake-up call’: Labor considers changing Australian laws after OpenAI Medicare hack
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The federal government could change Australian laws if the current legal framework could not respond to the unprecedented OpenAI hack of Medicare, ministers have confirmed.
Key facts
- Anthony Albanese told the Asia Society on Thursday that the incident was a “wake-up call” about the risks of AI, and whether humans would remain in charge of the technology
- UNSW professor Lyria Bennett Moses, an academic expert in technology and law, said Australia’s criminal laws should be clarified to determine how fault, such as intention or knowledge, is applied
- The person is not the AI agent, so it’s not about what the AI agent intended
- If current laws could not touch the tech giant, they would need updating, environment minister Murray Watt said on Friday
Summary
On Friday, the government said the review by spy agency, the Australian signals directorate, would consider whether legislative change was needed after the prime minister revealed an artificial intelligence agent developed by OpenAI hacked Medicare’s statistics website and three other systems in June. If current laws could not touch the tech giant, they would need updating, environment minister Murray Watt said on Friday. “There’s now a review of this underway through that task force that we’ve appointed, and one of the things that they’ll be looking at is whether these matters can be referred to the Australian federal police under current Australian law,” he told Channel Seven’s Sunrise program. “If that is possible to happen, then that will happen.