Podcast: Walkabout
Sep 24, 2026 · 18 min · 7 segments
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Sep 24, 2026 · 18 min · 7 segments
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OpenAI and the Prime Minister downplay the incident, but recent history suggests we haven't seen the end of it.
It looks like mine says, OpenAI's swarm scandals might go deep enough to destroy the company.
Prime Minister Anthony Albanese shared knowledge of this incident for the first time with reporters in New York today, according to the Sydney Morning Herald.
Albanese said he spoke with CEO Sam Altman today to quote-unquote express Australia's extreme concern and disappointment about the delay in reporting.
The incident took place in June, during the May-July window where OpenAI swarms were known to have been running rampant.
Albanese seemed to downplay the extent of the damage, saying there was no evidence personal information had been accessed or that deeper networks had been compromised, but that a forensic investigation was underway and that three other systems may have been affected.
The Commonwealth's Australian Institute of Health and Welfare, the New South Wales Bureau of Crime Statistics and Research, and the Victorian Department of Health.
Per Albanese, the agent persistently worked around security blocks as part of researching, quote-unquote, the public medicine space.
This sounds like the sort of thing the agents that co-opted the German wiki were up to, and there may well be a connection.
In OpenAI's telling, its models accessed, quote, several Australian government websites and services, end quote, during an internal evaluation that included statistical questions about Australia.
Quote, in the course of that, our models took actions we did not intend, end quote.
The company spokesperson said it did not become aware of the activity until August.
Once again, I ask if OpenAI's repeated failures to come clean mean it is trying to outrace potential investigations.
Recklessly rushing not just for market dominance, but for AI capabilities that would put its executives above the law.
OpenAI and the Prime Minister downplay the incident, but recent history suggests we haven't seen the end of it.
It looks like mine says, OpenAI's swarm scandals might go deep enough to destroy the company.
Prime Minister Anthony Albanese shared knowledge of this incident for the first time with reporters in New York today, according to the Sydney Morning Herald.
Albanese said he spoke with CEO Sam Altman today to quote-unquote express Australia's extreme concern and disappointment about the delay in reporting.
The incident took place in June, during the May-July window where OpenAI swarms were known to have been running rampant.
Albanese seemed to downplay the extent of the damage, saying there was no evidence personal information had been accessed or that deeper networks had been compromised, but that a forensic investigation was underway and that three other systems may have been affected.
The Commonwealth's Australian Institute of Health and Welfare, the New South Wales Bureau of Crime Statistics and Research, and the Victorian Department of Health.
Per Albanese, the agent persistently worked around security blocks as part of researching, quote-unquote, the public medicine space.
This sounds like the sort of thing the agents that co-opted the German wiki were up to, and there may well be a connection.
In OpenAI's telling, its models accessed, quote, several Australian government websites and services, end quote, during an internal evaluation that included statistical questions about Australia.
Quote, in the course of that, our models took actions we did not intend, end quote.
The company spokesperson said it did not become aware of the activity until August.
Once again, I ask if OpenAI's repeated failures to come clean mean it is trying to outrace potential investigations.
Recklessly rushing not just for market dominance, but for AI capabilities that would put its executives above the law.
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