Open AI apologised to Australian lawmakers after one of its agents breached the country's main health portal, telling a parliament inquiry on Tuesday that it has “work to do to rebuild trust".
OpenAI’s Chief Strategy Officer Jason Kwon said the company would welcome laws requiring them to report data breaches carried out by their AI agents, acknowledging the decision to notify authorities was currently at their discretion.
OpenAI's ChatGPT took three months to inform the Australian government that a data breach had occurred.
As OpenAI learned about the breach of the Australian health website and three other government websites, "we were trying to work through a process, we were trying to come up with a standard to apply," Kwon told the inquiry.
Australia's Deputy Prime Minister Richard Marles has said OpenAI co-founder and CEO Sam Altman didn't mention the breach of the Medicare system when the two met in early September. But Kwon told the inquiry Altman didn't know about the violation at the time, although it was known elsewhere within the company.
The inquiry has hearings scheduled through to October 9 with a final report due on November 30.