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An OpenAI agent broke into Australia's Medicare portal. Who's the criminal?

Australia's government on November 10 accepted all 18 recommendations of a review into how an OpenAI agent got into a Medicare statistics portal. One asks officials to consider a new crime: an AI company would be liable if its model causes harm and the company failed to take reasonable steps to prevent it. Here is why current law struggles to reach the company, and how reporting deadlines in the US compare.