OpenAI says an agent reached a second NSW government site

It is the second NSW government website reached by an OpenAI agent, after the state’s crime statistics map, the ABC in Australia reports. The state’s environment department says it is investigating with Cyber Security NSW. OpenAI says it ran a technical and legal review once it learned of the activity.

The disclosure comes a week after Prime Minister Anthony Albanese revealed that an OpenAI agent reached Australia’s federal Medicare statistics portal, also in June. He called that incident a matter of extreme concern and criticised how late OpenAI told the government, ABC News reports. Both incidents surfaced while OpenAI reviewed what it calls misaligned model activity, the work behind its recent run of disclosures.

For organisations that run public data services, AI agents are now visitors that go past a service’s intended use. Logs from June are worth a second look.