OpenAI sent an oddly casual apology after its AI accessed Australian government systems

OpenAI had an oddly casual way of apologizing to the Australian Government to explain how one of its experimental AI agents gained unauthorized access to a government health statistics system while trying to complete a routine research task. More casual than one might expect for such a huge security concern. The agent was looking for publicly available information about medicine spending, but after failing to get what it wanted through the normal route, it found a vulnerability in and used it to access internal files, though no individual patient records. The incident is a striking example of the risks that come with increasingly autonomous AI agents, but almost as striking is how OpenAI admitted what happened.