OpenAI executives to appear at Australian parliamentary hearing over AI agent accessing Medicare data
OpenAI executive Jason Kwon to face grilling at parliament about AI hacking Australians’ private data
The Australian parliamentary joint committee on artificial intelligence is holding four days of hearings this week, with OpenAI chief strategy officer Jason Kwon, the company's head of economic policy Adam Cohen, and Asia-Pacific national security lead Peter Anstee set to testify, while Anthropic, Microsoft and Google are also being questioned. Committee chair Jo Briskey said that beyond the AI agent accessing non-public Medicare data from Services Australia, OpenAI also took too long to notify the government, and she will press the company on how it will ensure this does not happen again. Independent senator David Pocock called OpenAI's response shocking and questioned corporate self-regulation. OpenAI apologized last week for the Services Australia incident and its notification approach, saying it is making improvements.