Don't forget whoever instructed it to preform the action.

An LLM can't just unprompted get the idea to do this.

These are USAIaian businesses attacking other countries. Why would anyone get arrested?

So, this is going to continue to escalate, until whoever gave the text generator the software tools needed to do this and gave it the access without any kind of firewall, gets charged with the appropriate felonies and is put in jail.

there's hacking nearly every week and no ones in jail. Medibank, Qantas, Optus blah blah blah These arent climate protestors, they'll not see jail time.

I think there is enough here for a judge to order a search warrant. It doesn't mean yet a crime has been committed, but there is enough to start some kind of compelled discovery process to find out what the fuck is going on.

Since it's an important enough corporation that got caught, in a sane society it should not make a difference, but we low key have a two-tiered justice system from the looks of it.

This is a big problem with AI, laws have not remotely caught up to these scenarios. Then you have Argentina creating legal structures for AI corporations that could essentially do this type of stuff, but evade prosecution because the corporation will give the owner limited liability and with no employees, the only punishment can be to shut down the corporation. Then they can spin up a new AI corporation and do it all over again in theory. Technology is advancing far beyond our ability to control it properly and tech bros don’t care much about consequences since they have historically been so minimal. Move fast, break shit is a psychopathic ethos.

The government can choose to sue (civil) or prosecute individuals/executives (criminal liability).

Assuming there is some legitimate explanation (I'll be interested in hearing this one!) they likely won't, but will now establish higher level reporting channels with OpenAI and Anthropic, and perhaps check their important email boxes more often regardless. ;-)

Australia gave up on their sovereignty when they chose US submarines. They're just reaping what was sown at this point (not submarines, that's for sure).

Anthropic hacked places using an openai agent??

Albo has got his head up his ass playing centrist.

Vote Greens.

They absolutely can control their agents, they are just choosing not to or are just blindingly incompetent.

Can I sue AI because of its "errors"?

No of course not its a tool you can't sue a tool.

Oh so I can sue the user of the tool. The one using it is responsible?

Naaahhh it was AI it all did it by itself we can't do anything about it.

My understanding is that it was the latter. From the ABC (Australia):

How was the data accessed?

As the government understands it, in this case, OpenAI gave an agent a "benign" task of trying to do research about public medicines spending.

The model then searched the internet widely for the information, and came across the Services Australia portal.

It then asked questions of the portal, but the portal didn't provide it with the requested information. As a result, it gained unauthorised access and secured information that wasn't public.