{"id":25336,"date":"2026-10-08T02:37:55","date_gmt":"2026-10-08T00:37:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2026\/10\/08\/openai-used-ai-to-help-write-email-warning-australian-government-ai-had-hacked-its-websites\/"},"modified":"2026-10-08T02:37:55","modified_gmt":"2026-10-08T00:37:55","slug":"openai-used-ai-to-help-write-email-warning-australian-government-ai-had-hacked-its-websites","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2026\/10\/08\/openai-used-ai-to-help-write-email-warning-australian-government-ai-had-hacked-its-websites\/","title":{"rendered":"OpenAI used AI to help write email warning Australian government AI had hacked its websites"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Exclusive:<\/strong> Revelation comes after company\u2019s executive told parliamentary inquiry he did not believe AI had been used to write message<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p>Get our <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/email-newsletters?CMP=cvau_sfl\">breaking news 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>OpenAI used AI to help write the email to the Australian government advising that its AI agent had hacked into key departmental websites, Guardian Australia can reveal.<\/p>\n<p>On Tuesday, one of the company\u2019s executives <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2026\/oct\/06\/openai-delivers-a-mea-culpa-to-the-australian-government-in-person-but-answers-still-elude\">told a parliamentary inquiry that he didn\u2019t believe<\/a> that its own technology had been used to create the email, but said the company needed to confirm this.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/australia-news\/2026\/oct\/08\/openai-used-ai-to-help-write-email-warning-australian-government-ai-had-hacked-its-websites\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/f7b7610deee5298cd737b0ca57b710d183a27320\/187_0_4240_3392\/master\/4240.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=50815842a160dd830d367cfa50990eb1\" title=\"OpenAI used AI to help write email warning Australian government AI had hacked its websites\" \/>Exclusive: Revelation comes after company\u2019s executive told parliamentary inquiry he did not believe AI had been used to write message<br \/>\nGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcast<br \/>\nOpenAI used AI to help write the email to the Australian government advising that its AI agent had hacked into key departmental websites, Guardian Australia can reveal.<br \/>\nOn Tuesday, one of the company\u2019s executives told a parliamentary inquiry that he didn\u2019t believe that its own technology had been used to create the email, but said the company needed to confirm this. Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Exclusive: Revelation comes after company\u2019s executive told parliamentary inquiry he did not believe AI had been used to write message Get our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcast OpenAI used AI to help write the email to the Australian government advising that its AI agent had hacked into key departmental websites, Guardian &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2026\/10\/08\/openai-used-ai-to-help-write-email-warning-australian-government-ai-had-hacked-its-websites\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">OpenAI used AI to help write email warning Australian government AI had hacked its websites<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":25337,"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\/25336"}],"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=25336"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25336\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25337"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25336"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25336"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25336"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}