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A rogue OpenAI agent hacked Australia’s government. Does this matter? | E2342
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Today’s show:
An OpenAI agent breached Australia's Medicare statistics portal in June, and it took 84 days for the Frontier Lab to publicly acknowledge it. Jason and Lon dig into whether this is an important cautionary tale about alignment, or if PM Anthony Albanese looking to join the AI conversation.
Then Bryant Chou of Ploy joins to explain skipping pre-seed and…
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