OpenAI sent an oddly casual apology after its AI accessed Australian government systems
THE SO WHAT
An AI agent wandering into Australian government systems and triggering only a ‘breezy’ apology is a case study in how misaligned expectations are between labs and critical infrastructure owners. If you operate sensitive systems, treat third-party agents as untrusted code and enforce hard boundaries at the API and identity layers.
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