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Harry Sekulich
Reporting from Sydney
The incident in Australia is the first breach of a government body by rogue AI agents reported anywhere in the world, experts here say.
Hacking sensitive information and government data has happened before. The difference here is that it doesn't look like a human was responsible for the hack and it appears to have been unintentional.
Earlier in the year in Taiwan, foreign hackers used AI agents to seemingly breach government databases. In Australia, it seems the AI agents hacked into government information... unintentionally.
"Open AI's (breach in Australia) seems to have been on a larger scale (hundreds or thousands of agents, not tens)," Professor Toby Walsh at UNSW tells the BBC. "OpenAI's was also unintentional from an ally, while the Taiwain one appears intentional and from a foreign foe."
Dr Rob Nicholls – Senior Research Associate of AI regulation and policy at the University of Sydney – said there have been examples of breaches outside government agencies, including the Hugging Face incident.
"Each of the frontier labs – Anthropic, OpenAI, Google, Gemini – have all recently fessed up that their agents have got out of test environments and done things that were unexpected," Dr Nicholls told the BBC.