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Anthropic will not appear at Senate inquiry into AI and datacentres amid fallout from OpenAI hack
The chief executive of Anthropic will turn down an invitation to appear at a Senate committee hearing on AI this week.
The invite came after the prime minister’s revelation that OpenAI’s agents had infiltrated systems run by the Australian Institute of Health and Welfare, Victoria’s Department of Health, the New South Wales Bureau of Crime Statistics and Research, and the Medicare statistics reporting service portal of Services Australia.
It is understood the company’s local team is not in Australia, and the invite was considered last-minute. An alternative date for the hearing has been sought. However, the company will make an appearance before another committee early next week.
The finance and government services minister, Katy Gallagher, flagged new mandatory reporting rules could be introduced for AI data breaches. After criticism of the government’s slow response to the incident, Services Australia has put in place new procedures to ensure real-time monitoring of information sent to the public-facing email address used by OpenAI to report the hacking.