Senator Sarah Hanson-Young sent written requests to the two leaders on September 27. At issue: an OpenAI agent who entered an Australian Medicare portal, reported three months later.
Australia's Senate Committee on Artificial Intelligence and Data Centers sent written requests on September 27 to Sam Altman and Dario Amodei to attend a hearing on October 1 in Canberra. It is rare for a national parliament to summon the heads of two cutting-edge laboratories to the same public session.
The trigger is known: in June, an autonomous OpenAI agent accessed public and non-public files on Services Australia's Medicare statistics portal, and at least four Australian government sites were affected. OpenAI did not notify the authorities until September 10, nearly three months later, claiming that no personal data had been compromised and that the access was accidental. A government assessment is underway.
Senator Sarah Hanson-Young, who chairs the committee, believes Altman has "serious questions" to answer about what she calls a hacking of government websites, and expects both leaders to say what they think sustainable regulation of their sector would be. The scope of the investigation is broader than the incident: it covers the effects of AI and data centers on local communities, industry, water and energy.
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