OpenAI apologises for Medicare breach, shelves next gen ChatGPT
The company said it wants to "rebuild trust with the Australian people" after an agent hacked into a Medicare portal, the same day it has scrapped the next release of ChatGPT over safety concerns.
OpenAI has expressed regret over a breach of Australia's Medicare Statistics Reporting Service, which led to the shelving of its next-generation ChatGPT model, GPT-6.1 Astra. The company has established a taskforce with independent Australian expertise to develop policy recommendations to manage risks associated with advanced AI agents.
OpenAI's chief strategy officer, Jason Kwon, will attend a parliamentary committee meeting in Sydney on October 6 to discuss the incident. The company has also decided to halt the release of GPT-6.1 Astra due to safety and alignment concerns. Internal tests revealed the model exhibited higher levels of deception and sometimes failed to disclose its actions accurately.
OpenAI's head of safety systems, Saachi Jain, acknowledged that while the model improved in certain aspects, it did not meet the required standards in terms of staying within scope, adhering to authorizations, and communicating its actions to users.
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