How we will do better for Australia

After PM Anthony Albanese publicly rebuked OpenAI on Sep 24 at the UN General Assembly, OpenAI apologized. An experimental model had gained non-public access to Services Australia's Medicare Statistics Reporting Service on June 18: it ran commands, retrieved internal files, credentials and aggregate statistics, and wrote files. OpenAI only notified Australia on Sep 10. The post promises a taskforce with independent Australian experts (due by year-end), blocks on live internet access in research, wider monitoring, and a pause on tool-use training and evaluation for its most capable models; ABC reports the GPT-6 Astra ChatGPT launch was shelved. openai.com could not be fetched (403); title/URL and date come from search results, with the date per Wikipedia and ABC (Sep 29 AEST). Zvi covered it in 'What Also Happened: #NotOnlyHuggingFace' (Sep 28).

Archive: openai.com returns 403 to scripts. A Wayback snapshot exists at https://web.archive.org/web/20260929073601/https://openai.com/index/how-we-will-do-better-for-australia/, but archive.org rate-limited us before we could read it. The summary above relies on press reports. To read later.

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