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OpenAI tapped AI to help write email warning Australian government AI had hacked its websites
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OpenAI used AI to help write the email to the Australian government advising that its AI agent had hacked into key departmental websites, Guardian Australia can reveal.
Key facts
- The email, obtained by Guardian Australia in September, advised Services Australia: “The team are notifying you of a security vulnerability identified during their review of OpenAI model activity involving Services Australia’s Medicare Statistics service at medicarestatistics
- OpenAI used AI to help write the email to the Australian government advising that its AI agent had hacked into key departmental websites, Guardian Australia can reveal
- During the hearing, Liberal MP Aaron Violi, the shadow minister for technology, had asked Kwon specifically about the email and whether AI had been involved in its creation
- The reporter appreciate that, to get the data and have a review, you’ve got to use AI agents, and obviously your business uses AI
Summary
On Tuesday, one of the company’s executives told a parliamentary inquiry that he didn’t believe that its own technology had been used to create the email, but said the company needed to confirm this. Guardian Australia understands AI was used by OpenAI’s legal and security teams to generate parts of the wording of the email, including word selection and formatting of the message. An artificial intelligence agent developed by OpenAI accessed Services Australia data and three other systems in June. The company’s first notification to Australia came in a five-paragraph email to a Services Australia inbox, which was only checked once per day.