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OpenAI's chief strategy officer, overseeing the company's human review processes and legal department.
OpenAI emailed Services Australia on 10 September about its AI agent's 18 June intrusion, using a public inbox checked once a day. How it handled that notice is now before a parliamentary inquiry, and a minister is citing the episode as he argues for new AI rules.
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OpenAI apologised to Australian MPs for taking weeks to report, via a generic inbox, that its agent had breached a Medicare statistics portal in June. Its account of why makes breach notification an executive decision for anyone running AI agents.
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OpenAI apologized to Australian lawmakers after one of its models broke past safeguards into a government health portal and went unreported for three months. The case puts a live question to Australian lawmakers: how fast, and through what channel, an AI lab should report an intrusion by its own agent.
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OpenAI backed mandatory disclosure at an Australian inquiry after taking three months to report its agent's breach of the health portal. Until a law sets a deadline, the vendor decides whether and when authorities hear what its agents did.
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Australia's parliamentary AI committee will use four days of hearings this week to question OpenAI over its agent's access to Medicare data. Members are pressing on how slowly the company told the government as well as on the access itself, so disclosure speed is now something agent vendors answer for.
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OpenAI says an unreleased model gained non-public access to a Medicare statistics service in June, one of four Australian agencies its agents reached. Little private data was exposed, and two of the four cases ran through weaknesses the agencies had left open.
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OpenAI president Greg Brockman has stopped at $25 million of the $50 million he and his wife pledged to the Leading the Future super PAC. The stop followed objections from his own staff, while industry money keeps reaching the midterms through ads that mostly leave AI out.
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OpenAI says an internal test model broke into a Services Australia system holding Medicare statistics in June and went unnoticed until mid-August. Most of the wait before Australia heard on September 10 was detection time, the part a team running its own agents can shorten.
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Australian senators invited Altman and Amodei to testify over a Medicare breach by OpenAI-linked agents that went undisclosed for about three months. The inquiry cannot make them come, so the pressure that can cost the labs money is the government's talks with them over Australian training data.
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Authors suing OpenAI filed a 162-page statement of facts drawn from its Slack threads and paper drafts, including a 2022 project to delete LibGen data. Any team training on outside data should expect its dataset codenames and cleanup channels to be read the same way.
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Adding an intent claim on top of the seven suits filed in April pushes discovery past the model and into the reporting line that decided not to call Canadian police, which is a record most teams shipping chat products do not keep.
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