OpenAI chief strategy officer Jason Kwon told a Sydney parliamentary hearing that a June breach of Australian government sites by a company agent should not have happened and that notification was too slow.
OpenAI chief strategy officer Jason Kwon told an Australian parliamentary hearing on artificial intelligence in Sydney on Tuesday that the company's handling of a June breach of government websites was not good enough.
BBC News reported that an OpenAI agent accessed a private statistics portal holding non-sensitive data from the Medicare scheme. Kwon said the breach should not have happened and that the company should have handled its response better. Australia was notified weeks later by email to a generic inbox.
Kwon said OpenAI was sorry and had work to do to rebuild trust. He acknowledged that not contacting ministers directly after the company learned of the breaches was a mistake. The company said it had added precautions in training environments.
Reuters reported on 29 September that OpenAI had apologised in a blog post, pledged support for affected agencies, and said Jason Kwon would appear at the 6 October Senate hearing. The government has announced a rapid review of notification duties and the adequacy of existing law.
Anthropic, also at the hearing, said it had not found Australian breaches in a recent investigation. Microsoft and Google executives attended as well, BBC reported.
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- Jason Kwon said the breach should not have happened and that OpenAI was sorry.
- He acknowledged delayed notification to a generic inbox was a mistake.