OpenAI confirms its own AI helped draft hacking disclosure email to Canberra
X-Risk Daily
Thursday 08 October 2026
Transformative AI
OpenAI has confirmed that it used its own artificial intelligence to help draft the email notifying the Australian government that one of its AI agents had breached departmental systems, Guardian Australia reported on 8 October 2026.
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