According to The Guardian, government flags criminal law changes to ensure companies can’t argue in future ‘that someone didn’t know the computer was loaded’. OpenAI won’t face criminal penalties over the Medicare hack but the prime minister has flagged changes to Australia’s criminal law to crack down on future breaches by artificial intelligence companies, The Guardian reported.
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Australia to introduce mandatory reporting after OpenAI hack to combat artificial intelligence ‘going rogue’
By Marcus Reed
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The report, filed in our Tech section, was first published by The Guardian on Tuesday, November 10 and concerns Australia.
Background
OpenAI: OpenAI is an American artificial intelligence (AI) public benefit corporation (PBC) headquartered in San Francisco, California. It develops "frontier" generative AI models, particularly its generative pre-trained transformer (GPT) series of large language models.
Australia: Australia, officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania and numerous smaller islands. It has a land area of 7,688,287 km2 (2,968,464 sq mi), making it the sixth-largest country in the world, and is the world's flattest and driest inhabited continent.
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