OpenAI bots meddled with multiple US government agency sites

Image source, Reuters Image caption, OpenAI has been at the center of new concerns over uncontrolled AI activity. OpenAI has acknowledged that it alerted "dozens" of global institutions that their websites may have been meddled with by its AI bots acting improperly. AI agents attempted to get information from "governments, universities, public agencies, and other institutions," including the SEC, Census Bureau and Education Department, the company said. The disclosures come just days after Australia's Prime Minister Anthony Albanese announced that OpenAI agents had breached non-public files on the website of its government-run health care scheme, Medicare.