Australia's Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has disclosed that an artificial intelligence agent developed by US firm OpenAI "infiltrated" a statistics portal on an Australian government website.

The agent hacked a statistics portal containing private data from Australia's universal healthcare scheme, Medicare. Experts believe it is the world's first known AI breach of a government system.

OpenAI says it is not believed any patient records were accessed.

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