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Opposition defence spokesperson James Paterson questioned the timing of Prime Minister Anthony Albanese's announcement about an AI agent hacking into Medicare. Paterson believed the announcement was made at the UN summit in New York as part of Albanese's effort to stand up to "big tech" on AI. The government is being questioned about when they knew about the breach and why the PM chose to disclose it at the time and place he did.
However, Paterson did not consider the breach overly serious because the data accessed was freely available to researchers and academics studying the health system. Assistant Minister Andrew Charlton said the hack was likely to become more prevalent in the future, but the government wanted to inform the public as quickly as possible.
Charlton blamed OpenAI's slow and inadequate response for the delay in notifying the Australian Signals Directorate about the breach.
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