Cyber-attack like OpenAI Medicare breach ‘seems likely’ in UK, says minister
Source: The Guardian ·
Kanishka Narayan, concerned by Australian incident, says British cyber defences could be bypassed by AI agentUK politics live – latest updatesAn AI-driven cyber-attack like the OpenAI breach of Australia’s healthcare system is likely, “if not inevitable”, in the UK, according to a senior minister.Kanishka Narayan, the UK AI minister, indicated that the British government’s own cyber defences…
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An AI-driven cyber-attack like the OpenAI breach of Australia’s healthcare system is likely, “if not inevitable”, in the UK, according to a senior minister. Kanishka Narayan, the UK AI minister, indicated that the British government’s own cyber defences would be bypassed by a technology that has developed highly sophisticated skills in cybersecurity. In a speech on Monday, Narayan said an incident in June when an OpenAI agent – a computer program acting autonomously – infiltrated Medicare, Australia’s universal healthcare system, could be repeated in the UK. “It concerns me,” he said. “It seems likely, if not inevitable, that our own cyber defences will be breached.” Narayan said the agent’s task was “benign” as it searched for information about public spending on medicines, but it nonetheless went after data that was not authorised to have. “The Australian government has said that no personal medical records are known to have been accessed, and there is no evidence of wider…