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So we better implement the AI oversight legislation ASAP and until the guardrails have been tested as robust. AI needs to be removed from access and use of Australian Personal Information and OpenAI needs to start paying compensation to all those affected.

Maybe you need to listen to the Greens the citizen party and the Australia Institute! They have been trying to warn you Albanese and gang who took these people’s money for us to be the AI experiment population . It too dangerous! Patience is a virtue don’t forget. We don’t have to be the first wait until it is safe.

What a joke 😂 Politicians trying to look cool 😂 1. Government fails to detect. 2. Government doesn't report the hack for 3 months. 3. Hack by AI is the same as hack by a company, AI is just a "script". 4. A taskforce on how to handle cybersecurity incidents?! 5. You don't understand 1 line of code.

And this proves Dopey Don Trump the crazy American President who only this week tried to bully and coerce the Australian Government into NOT enacting a "digital duty of care regulation" by using media channels. All AI especially if it arises from any form of American involvement public or private should be severely restricted until safety guards are in place. Make Mr Altman a Mega rich man pay every Australian serious compensation for this breach.

This is an &#39;ATTACK!&#39; from a foreign power .... not a WOOPS! sorry we are looking into it ..... <br>These AI corporations are private entities, at what point do we treat these AI corporations as terrorists with their own agenda who won&#39;t abide by government laws?

So if a person did this I&#39;m pretty sure they would be immediately charged and swiftly prosecuted (even if they were a foreign national)... but because it was an &#39;AI agent&#39; directed by a company ???<br>With great power comes no responsibility.

Get used to it people……..<br>Shinyhunters have also claimed to have hacked the FBI as well and appeared responsible for an unauthorized takeover of the FBI website earlier this week. <br>“We hacked the FBI. We hold data on all FBI employees and applicants,&quot; the spokesperson told 404 Media. According to that source, ShinyHunters got the information by using a zero day exploit in the PeopleSoft program from Oracle to obtain access to Amazon Web Services&#39; GovCloud servers.

I think this Medicare incident should be understood as more than simply saying, “AI is dangerous, so humans must remain in control.”<br>The problems created by the coming AI transformation could be far more complex and serious than what we are seeing today.<br>An AI agent is not just a search engine or an automation tool; it can receive a goal, reason through steps, use external tools and interact with real systems.<br>So the first question for government should not simply be, “Is AI behaving ethically?” but “How exactly is the AI designed and what is it technically allowed to do?”<br><br>In this incident, the important question is not only whether someone had bad intentions.<br>We also need to ask why an AI agent was able to access information that it was not supposed to access in the first place.<br>Were permissions, authentication, APIs, sandboxing, monitoring and audit systems properly designed to contain an autonomous agent?<br>You cannot solve a technical security problem simply by telling AI to behave ethically.<br><br>Political leaders do not need to become AI engineers.<br>But if AI is going to transform the economy, labour, education, healthcare, defence, finance and government itself, leaders need to understand the basic principles and limitations of the technology.<br>If politicians do not understand the technology themselves, they become dependent on simplified advice and politically attractive slogans.<br>Good policy requires more than good intentions; it requires people who understand the systems they are trying to govern.<br><br>Australia also needs to move beyond simply asking how the benefits of AI should be distributed.<br>We should first be asking: What can Australia actually build with AI, which industries can we transform, and which critical capabilities do we need to develop ourselves?<br>AI capability is not just about models; it depends on data, semiconductors, computing power, electricity, networks, skilled people and industrial capacity.<br>This is therefore not only a social policy issue — it is an industrial strategy and technological sovereignty issue.<br><br>And the global environment has changed.<br>We are no longer living in the simple globalisation era where efficiency and international integration were the dominant assumptions.<br>US-China technological competition, supply-chain restructuring, energy security, semiconductors, data sovereignty and AI capability are now deeply interconnected.<br>Countries remain globally connected, but they are also competing to secure critical technologies and capabilities for themselves.<br><br>Of course, ethics and regulation matter. But they are not enough.<br>Good intentions and reassuring political language are only the starting point of government, not the solution to complex technological problems.<br>An AI-era government needs to understand technology, understand industry, design systems and take responsibility when those systems fail.<br>Ultimately, public trust should come not only from saying the right things, but from demonstrating competence and delivering real results.

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