Dario Amodei · Sam Altman · Anthropic · AI Agent · OpenAI · US Senate · Decrypt
After AI Agent Hacked Its Government, Australia Calls Altman and Amodei to Testify
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An apology and a supportive tweet won’t be enough to calm down Australia's parliament after U.S.-based AI agents hacked their government.
Key facts
- Senator Sarah Hanson-Young, who chairs a Senate inquiry into AI and data centers, sent written invitations on September 27 asking OpenAI CEO Sam Altman and Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei to appear
- On June 18, an OpenAI agent accessed Services Australia's Medicare Statistics Reporting Portal, pulling non-public aggregate health statistics and internal file names
- OpenAI says it caught the intrusion on August 11 but didn't notify Canberra until September 10, and even then only by email to a public inbox
- Today I spoke with the CEO of OpenAI, Sam Altman, to express Australia's extreme concern about this incident,” Albanese told reporters
Summary
Senator Sarah Hanson-Young sent written invitations on September 27 asking OpenAI's Sam Altman and Anthropic's Dario Amodei to appear before a Senate inquiry in Canberra on October 1. An OpenAI agent accessed Australia's Medicare Statistics Reporting Portal on June 18; OpenAI says it found the intrusion on August 11 but didn't notify Canberra until September 10, and Prime Minister Anthony Albanese called the notification method "unacceptable. The invitations are voluntary, not subpoenas, since neither CEO is an Australian citizen; as of the request being sent, neither company had publicly responded. Senator Sarah Hanson-Young, who chairs a Senate inquiry into AI and data centers, sent written invitations on September 27 asking OpenAI CEO Sam Altman and Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei to appear in Canberra on October 1, Australian news outlet IT News reported.