{"id":25094,"date":"2026-09-25T05:37:16","date_gmt":"2026-09-25T03:37:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2026\/09\/25\/wake-up-call-labor-considers-changing-australian-laws-after-openai-medicare-hack\/"},"modified":"2026-09-25T05:37:16","modified_gmt":"2026-09-25T03:37:16","slug":"wake-up-call-labor-considers-changing-australian-laws-after-openai-medicare-hack","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2026\/09\/25\/wake-up-call-labor-considers-changing-australian-laws-after-openai-medicare-hack\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Wake-up call\u2019: Labor considers changing Australian laws after OpenAI Medicare hack"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Expert says Australia\u2019s criminal laws should be clarified to determine how fault is applied to a corporation when its AI agent commits a crime<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p>Get our <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/email-newsletters?CMP=cvau_sfl\">new political email<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/app.adjust.com\/w4u7jx3\">free app<\/a> or <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/australia-news\/series\/full-story?CMP=cvau_sfl\">daily news podcast<\/a><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The federal government could change Australian laws if the current legal framework could not respond to the unprecedented OpenAI hack of Medicare, ministers have confirmed.<\/p>\n<p>On Friday, the government said the review by spy agency, the Australian signals directorate, would consider whether legislative change was needed after the prime minister revealed an artificial intelligence agent developed by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/australia-news\/2026\/sep\/24\/anthony-albanese-says-openai-agent-hacked-medicare-extreme-concern-sam-altman\">OpenAI hacked Medicare\u2019s statistics website and three other<\/a> systems in June.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/australia-news\/2026\/sep\/25\/wake-up-call-labor-considers-changing-australian-laws-after-openai-medicare-hack\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/77d725891b1c6a7305d62bdee7be3ad8911da003\/386_0_3333_2667\/master\/3333.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=dc132b6049503f62a41ee5e7cf400f04\" title=\"\u2018Wake-up call\u2019: Labor considers changing Australian laws after OpenAI Medicare hack\" \/>Expert says Australia\u2019s criminal laws should be clarified to determine how fault is applied to a corporation when its AI agent commits a crime<br \/>\nGet our new political email, free app or daily news podcast<br \/>\nThe federal government could change Australian laws if the current legal framework could not respond to the unprecedented OpenAI hack of Medicare, ministers have confirmed.<br \/>\nOn Friday, the government said the review by spy agency, the Australian signals directorate, would consider whether legislative change was needed after the prime minister revealed an artificial intelligence agent developed by OpenAI hacked Medicare\u2019s statistics website and three other systems in June. Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Expert says Australia\u2019s criminal laws should be clarified to determine how fault is applied to a corporation when its AI agent commits a crime Get our new political email, free app or daily news podcast The federal government could change Australian laws if the current legal framework could not respond to the unprecedented OpenAI hack &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2026\/09\/25\/wake-up-call-labor-considers-changing-australian-laws-after-openai-medicare-hack\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">\u2018Wake-up call\u2019: Labor considers changing Australian laws after OpenAI Medicare hack<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":25095,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25094"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25094"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25094\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25095"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25094"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25094"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25094"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}