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OpenAI agent hacked Australian government website, PM says

256 points · 198 comments · rudy6912

vintagedave · 1790241637 · focus · HN ↗
> the breach took place on 18 June - Open AI informed the government with an email to a general address on 10 September
So we have a company hacking a foreign government's websites and data. And, in terms of ethics, they take almost three months to notify; and in terms of competence, appear to have no formal contacts nor to have found one in that time.
Once an American business starts hacking allied governments, it's time for strict responses, yes? Replace the governance (board and C-level)? Remove financial incentives and open the company - open weights, open training, per its original 'open' ethos?
Altman is busy saying there needs to be regulation, but in terms of what OpenAI does, he can control that already.
1. makingstuffs · 1790255957 · focus · HN ↗
  You missed the most important part, Altman said we can trust him to ‘do the right thing, because it is the right thing to do’
  <a href="https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cqx2zpj4y525o" rel="nofollow">https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cqx2zpj4y525o
  1. ambicapter · 1790258199 · focus · HN ↗
    He sounds like Elizabeth Holmes.

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