# Regulating AI: OpenAI agent breached Australian health and three other websites

https://mins.news/en/video/88248

- CNA, 2026-10-06 14:54 UTC
- Tech
- Original: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s_1Uh303iag

> OpenAI’s chief strategy officer has formally apologised for an AI agent’s unintended hack of Australian government websites and acknowledged that the company should have handled its response better. Jeannie Paterson, a University of Melbourne law professor and director of its Centre for AI and Digital Ethics, joined a discussion on AI regulation.

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