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Cyber-attack similar to OpenAI Medicare breach seems likely in UK, confirms minister
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An AI-driven cyber-attack similar to the OpenAI breach of Australia’s healthcare system is likely, “if not inevitable”, in the UK, according to a senior minister.
Key facts
- They will also be joined by the head of the UK’s AI Security Institute, Henry de Zoete
- Speaking at a science and tech hub at Imperial College London, Narayan said the security minister, Dan Jarvis, would lead a government programme to strengthen against cyber-attacks, including from AI
- An AI-driven cyber-attack similar to the OpenAI breach of Australia’s healthcare system is likely, “if not inevitable”, in the UK, according to a senior minister
- Kanishka Narayan, the UK AI minister, indicated that the British government’s own cyber defences would be bypassed by a technology that has developed highly sophisticated skills in cybersecurity
Summary
Kanishka Narayan, the UK AI minister, indicated that the British government’s own cyber defences would be bypassed by a technology that has developed highly sophisticated skills in cybersecurity. In a speech Narayan said an incident in June when an OpenAI agent, a computer program acting autonomously, infiltrated Medicare, Australia’s universal healthcare system, could be repeated in the UK. “It concerns me,” he said. Narayan said the agent’s task was “benign” as it searched for information about public spending on medicines, but it nonetheless went after data that it was not authorised to have.