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I asked him why Australians should feel comfortable with AI, and OpenAI's tech in particular...","has_transcript":false,"transcript_status":"","transcript_kind":""}],"full_text":"A top OpenAI executive who flew to Australia to mop up after the company's Medicare statistics hack said he could not explain why Australians are among the world's most distrustful of AI.\n\nChief strategy officer Jason Kwon made the comments to the ABC as he left a parliamentary inquiry into AI, in his first public appearance since the prime minister revealed the hack late last month.\n\nMr Kwon pledged to rebuild trust after the hack, while the company's handling of its disclosure drew criticism from the federal government.\n\nAfter touting Australia's adoption rate of OpenAI's ChatGPT, Mr Kwon did not have an answer for why some polls show that a majority of the nation does not trust the technology, more than in most other countries.\n\n\"I can't explain the current sentiment; all we can do is continue to get better,\" he said.\n\nOpenAI says it made changes to prevent future hacks\n\nMr Kwon said OpenAI now alerts staff when its models use the internet in ways they should not during training.\n\nBut he acknowledged OpenAI should have told the Australian government about the Medicare hack sooner, rather than waiting to establish more facts.\n\nHe said the company identified the NSW Parks and Wildlife breach last week and reported it to the state government much sooner.\n\nMr Kwon also added that chief executive Sam Altman had not known about it when he met Deputy Prime Minister Richard Marles on September 1, despite company staff having first found out about the hack several weeks prior.\n\nWhile in Australia, Mr Kwon will interview several people for OpenAI's promised \"taskforce\" to help guide its own response to the hack, a spokesperson told the ABC this afternoon.\n\nAnthropic would have told Australia if it had done the hack\n\nRepresentatives of rival AI company Anthropic told the committee that it would have made a similar disclosure if it had discovered its technology had hacked another company.\n\nThe company also backed a proposal floated by the federal government's Office of AI that would require AI developers to report serious safety incidents, saying its current reporting commitments were largely voluntary.\n\nAnthropic representatives also said it was finalising a deal to let Australia's AI Safety Institute independently test its models.\n\nIts international envoy, former US ambassador to Australia Jeff Bleich, told the committee that the company wants to train its AI in Australia.\n\nBut he said Australia's current copyright regime was an obstacle that needed to change, regardless of any licensing deals it might sign.\n\n\"You can't license the entire internet,\" he said.\n\nAnthropic has not publicly disclosed signing any licensing deals in Australia.\n\nCreatives and rights holders reject claims status quo isn't working\n\nGroups representing musicians, writers and voice actors rejected calls to loosen copyright laws to attract AI investment, accusing the companies of taking their work without permission.\n\nARIA chief executive Annabelle Herd warned that such a deal would threaten Australia's music industry.\n\n\"Australia's artists will be the roadkill in the rush to this AI deal,\" she told the committee.\n\nThe groups argued that AI companies could already seek permission and pay to use creative work under existing copyright law.\n\nThey also said members were not just after payment but also control over whether AI companies would train on their work.\n\n\"The idea that payment is the only thing we're haggling about is a step in the wrong direction,\" Australian Writers' Guild executive director Claire Pullen said.\n\nBig tech's old guard warns against drastic regulation\n\nLater in the day, both Google and Microsoft appeared before the committee urging a less catastrophic approach to regulating the technology.\n\nMicrosoft said Australia should build on its existing laws, including privacy and anti-discrimination protections, updating them where needed and adopting AI standards that work across borders.\n\nGoogle also called for common industry standards and rules that work across borders, warning against duplication while saying AI was too important not to regulate.\n\nThe committee is set to have another hearing in Sydney tomorrow.","full_text_attribution":"Full text extracted from the ABC News article at https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-10-06/openai-hearing-apology-key-takeaways/107235640. 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