Australia weighs AI criminal penalties after Medicare portal breach
Original title: Australia to introduce mandatory reporting after OpenAI hack to combat artificial intelligence ‘going rogue’
OpenAI will not face criminal penalties over the June Medicare portal breach, while a failure-to-prevent offence is under consideration.
Prime Minister Anthony Albanese released recommendations from a rapid review of the June breach of a Medicare statistics portal administered by Services Australia, but not the findings or the report. OpenAI will not face criminal penalties over that breach. A key recommendation asks the Attorney-General's Department, the Australian Federal Police and Home Affairs to consider penalties for egregious regulatory non-compliance and a failure-to-prevent offence for harmful AI models.
Unconfirmed: The review findings and report were not released, and the excerpt does not specify a mandatory-reporting rule.
- The portal breach occurred in June and was administered by Services Australia.
- The proposed offence would cover harmful model conduct where reasonable prevention steps were not taken.
- Albanese committed to releasing the review findings and report later.
- The page title also refers to mandatory reporting, which the excerpt does not detail.
- Vendors
- OpenAI
- Victims
- Services Australia
- Countries
- Australia
From the original article
2 min read at databreaches.netTess Ikonomou and Josh Butler report: OpenAI will not face criminal penalties over the Medicare data breach, but the prime minister has flagged changes to Australia’s criminal law to crack down on future breaches by artificial intelligence companies. Anthony Albanese on Tuesday released the recommendations of a “rapid review” into the June breach of a...
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