New OpenAI names four Australian bodies its models reached and says it should have told them sooner
In a post headed “How we will do better for Australia,” OpenAI set out what its models and agents did at four Australian bodies. At Services Australia, “an OpenAI model discovered a way to gain non-public access to the service, and ran commands, retrieved internal files, credentials and aggregate statistics, and wrote files.” At the NSW Bureau of Crime Statistics and Research, a model “accessed BOCSAR's public Crime Mapping Tool to research public crime statistics.” At the Victorian Department of Health, agents “discovered an exposed access key to query the Victorian Agency for Health Information's reporting system and retrieve reporting configuration and aggregate survey statistics.” At the Australian Institute of Health and Welfare, agents “retrieved aggregate statistics using third-party browsing and download services.” OpenAI wrote that “we should have shared preliminary findings sooner and kept Australian agencies updated as more facts emerged,” and said it will establish “a taskforce with independent Australian expertise to develop practical policy recommendations,” offer credits from its “$1 billion Daybreak for Frontline Defenders fund,” and send chief strategy officer Jason Kwon to “appear at the Joint Select Committee on Artificial Intelligence in Sydney on Tuesday 6 October.”