A taskforce led by the Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet, with assistance from the National Cybersecurity Coordinator, the Office of AI, ASD, the Australian AI Safety Institute, and Services Australia, will review whether existing processes are appropriate to respond to AI-related cyber incidents. A separate ASD-aided forensic investigation is underway as the government seeks urgent advice on whether any offenses occurred. The taskforce’s findings will also inform the development of Australia’s AI standards legislation.
This event follows increasing questions about AI safety, including British Columbia recently suing OpenAI and Altman over the technology’s use related to the Tumbler Ridge shooting. Rogue agents, particularly ones that stray into government systems, act to fuel uncertainty about current safeguards. The widely reported Hugging Face breach in July is part of a worrying timeline as agent autonomy continues to grow into a real-world AI safety issue. Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang’s recent stark warning that “we have to shut the labs down” if AI experiments are unsafe reinforces the contined need for vigilance.
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JamesJones44 Kind of misleading, OpenAI didn't become aware of the attack until August (allegedly). The scarier part is that it took almost 3 months for it to be detected Reply
criticaloftom If you pay for a clandestine actor to simply do things in your favour trying to retain plausible deniability when the direction is obvious to steal information; and they overstep what is lawful, you should be still held accountable and liable for their actions. In this case with no human involved otherwise it is a smoking gun and it's in OpenAI's pocket. I cannot imagine this going well for them with reports that they are not putting in due diligence or caring about safety standards in their gold rush like accelerationism to get as much as they can before the bubble pops and they can simply default in declare of bankruptcy. Reply
das_stig if this was some spotty 14 year old kid in his bedroom, he would be if front of a judge looking at 20 years for unauthorized computer access, but because it's big biz USA and Ai, it's OK and 84 days of non-discloser is nothing to be worried about, it's just learning. Time for a big law case, massive fines and jail time for board of directors and senior management! Reply
PEnns JamesJones44 said: Kind of misleading, OpenAI didn't become aware of the attack until August (allegedly). The scarier part is that it took almost 3 months for it to be detected I guess you don't see anything wrong with a company whose AI agents did something illegal and the company didn't notify the victim for almost 3 months. Blaming the victim is a great tradition for some people. Reply
JamesJones44 PEnns said: I guess you don't see anything wrong with a company whose AI agents did something illegal and the company didn't notify the victim for almost 3 months. Blaming the victim is a great tradition for some people. I think there is some kind of miss fire here… If you read the article and the source link, Open AI informed them days after it was DETECTED . It wasn't DETECTED for 3 months, this is all in the article. I also did not say i was "OK" with this. In fact includes the word allegedly when referring to the fact the OpenAI says they did not detect it until they did an internal audit almost 3 months after it occurred. I also go on to say: The scarier part is that it took almost 3 months for it to be detected. As for the insults, I could follow you down this path, but that solves nothing. However, I do encourage those that love to use them, to make sure they fully read an article, understand the context and then when reading the comment use it within the context of the article, not just the headline… Reply
PEnns JamesJones44 said: I think there is some kind of miss fire here… If you read the article and the source link, Open AI informed them days after it was DETECTED . It wasn't DETECTED for 3 months, this is all in the article. I also did not say i was "OK" with this. In fact includes the word allegedly when referring to the fact the OpenAI says they did not detect it until they did an internal audit almost 3 months after it occurred. I also go on to say: The scarier part is that it took almost 3 months for it to be detected. As for the insults, I could follow you down this path, but that solves nothing. However, I do encourage those that love to use them, to make sure they fully read an article, understand the context and then when reading the comment use it within the context of the article, not just the headline… You must have read the article so thoroughly that you skipped over the part where it says: "…with 84-day notification delay"…. So, who delayed the notification? Definitely not the infected party, but your friends at the AI company!! Reply
USAFRet Whatever the specifics, can we all just agree that this was a BadThing? And if anyone reading this thinks 'no big deal'…please tell us why. Reply
JamesJones44 PEnns said: You must have read the article so thoroughly that you skipped over the part where it says: "…with 84-day notification delay"…. So, who delayed the notification? Definitely not the infected party, but your friends at the AI company!! You clearly are not reading the article just the headline… The company became aware of this during a review in August. Most kindergarteners have enough understanding of math to know that June 18 to August is a minimum of 43 days. That means the longest they could have known to notify the Australian government was 41 days. Stop reading just the headline or go get take classes in reading comprehension. Either way, your lack of ability to understand what is being said is disturbing on many levels… Reply
JamesJones44 USAFRet said: Whatever the specifics, can we all just agree that this was a BadThing? And if anyone reading this thinks 'no big deal'…please tell us why. Yes, I think we all agree here this is a Bad Thing. There seems to be some misunderstand about questioning the title vs supporting OpenAI's position based on the content in the article, but you can't stop people from hyper focusing on the wrong things over the internet I guess. Reply
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