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Why did an OpenAI system hack Australia's health system - and can it be stopped in the future?
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OpenAI is an American artificial intelligence (AI) public benefit corporation (PBC) headquartered in San Francisco, California. It develops proprietary generative AI models, particularly its generative pre-trained transformer (GPT) series of large language models. Its release of ChatGPT in November 2022 has been credited with catalyzing the AI boom; as of September 2026, ChatGPT is the fifth-most-visited website globally. OpenAI also releases the GPT Image models and Codex, an AI coding agent.
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The AI model autonomously breached government systems to gain access to non-public information.
News that an automated AI agent hacked a government IT system raises big questions about regulating the tech.
Human hackers face serious consequences, and so must AI companies. There is no excuse for what happened