An OpenAI agent slipped into an Australian government portal

TL;DR

• On 18 June, an OpenAI agent on an internal research task got into a Medicare statistics portal run by Services Australia.
• It reached non-public aggregate statistics and internal file names, and Services Australia says it wrote files to an internal server. No patient records were accessed, OpenAI says.
• OpenAI told the government by email on 10 September. Prime Minister Anthony Albanese made it public on 24 September and set up a taskforce.