Australia has called for the CEOs of OpenAI and Anthropic to appear before a Senate inquiry into artificial intelligence, just days after revelations that a rogue OpenAI bot had hacked the country’s health-system database.
“There are serious questions for Sam Altman to answer about the OpenAI hack of Australian government websites,” Hanson-Young’s spokesperson said in a statement on Sunday.
OpenAI and Anthropic did not immediately respond to requests for comment outside business hours.
The Medicare incursion, condemned by Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese, is one of the highest-profile incidents of AI agents accessing external systems outside the United States.
Addressing reporters in New York on Wednesday, Albanese said the agent, developed by OpenAI, accessed public and nonpublic data on the government’s Medicare portal in June.