AI just hacked a government. How can that happen? | BBC News

An OpenAI agent has “infiltrated" part of the Australian government's healthcare scheme Medicare. Experts say it's the world's first known breach of a government system by rogue AI agents It accessed a statistics portal in June, OpenAI became aware in August and told the Australian government in September, via email. So - how can this happen? In this video, the BBC's Cyber Correspondent Joe Tidy explains. 0:00 Intro 01:09 What happened in Australia? 02:01 Why would AI do this? 02:36 Ope