Australia to mandate AI breach reporting, create regulator after OpenAI breach

Australia will require artificial intelligence companies to report breaches ‌and may change criminal law to address "serious misconduct", Prime Minister Anthony Albanese said on Tuesday, after an OpenAI agent broke into a government website. The OpenAI agent gained unauthorised access to the medical statistics portal of Medicare, Australia's universal health insurance programme, while researching public medical spending, the government said in September. "(The recommendations) include mandatory AI company reporting when it comes to misaligned behaviour or cyber ​incidents, and consideration of reforming criminal law in cases of serious misconduct," Albanese told reporters. "The law needs to get ahead of, and in some cases, make sure that it catches up with what is ​a very fast-changing world." OpenAI has said it learned of the breach only in August ​and that the…