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OpenAI, Anthropic CEOs called to appear at Australian AI probe

Global Published 27 September 2026, 09:52 · archived 27 Sep 2026

SYDNEY: The CEOs of OpenAI and Anthropic have been called to appear at an Australian Senate inquiry on AI, the head of the ​probe said on Sunday, days after the revelation that a rogue OpenAI ‌bot had hacked the country’s health-system database. The Medicare breach, condemned by Prime Minister Anthony Albanese, is one of the highest-profile incidents of AI agents accessing external systems outside ​the US. OpenAI’s Sam Altman and Anthropic’s Dario Amodei have been sent ​written requests to appear at the inquiry, which is to ⁠hold public hearings in the capital Canberra on Thursday, said a spok...

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