OpenAI bots meddled with multiple US government agency sites
OpenAI said its bots accessed public data from a range of institutions during test exercises.
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OpenAI has been at the centre of new concerns over uncontrolled AI activity
OpenAI has acknowledged that it alerted "dozens" of global institutions that their websites may have been meddled with by its AI bots acting improperly.
AI agents attempted to get information from "governments, universities, public agencies, and other institutions", including the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), Census Bureau and Education Department, the company said.
The disclosures come days after Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese announced that OpenAI agents had breached non-public files on the website of its government-run health care scheme.
Since August, public fears have grown over the potentially serious, even life-threatening, impacts of AI tools falling outside of human control.
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