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10 November 2026

AI safety standards to be introduced after OpenAI Medicare hack

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Source reporting: abc.net.au

AI safety standards to be introduced after OpenAI Medicare hack

The government will introduce mandatory AI safety standards and a new regulator after a rogue OpenAI agent gained unauthorised access to Medicare data in an incident that appears not to have breached existing laws.

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