Australia AI agent breach disclosure hearing

At an Australian parliamentary inquiry on October 6, Anthropic executives said the company was open to laws requiring AI firms to report data breaches, Reuters reported. Its head of safeguards said an internal investigation had not found its products breaching Australian government systems, while acknowledging limited visibility into some customer activity. The hearing followed OpenAI’s earlier disclosure that an agent had accessed a government health portal without authorization. Australian Broadcasting Corporation representative Kate Gilchrist separately argued against loosening copyright rules for AI training and objected to a proposed opt-out approach. These were positions given to lawmakers, not changes to Australian law or independent findings about every AI system.