Governments around the world are hardening their AI stances as more agentic hacks breach critical systems. South Korea’s president noted “considerable public concern and anxiety” following revelations that hackers used an AI system to execute recent cyberattacks against banks in the country.
And officials from OpenAI and Anthropic faced questions from lawmakers in Australia on Tuesday, after the ChatGPT maker drew criticism for not alerting Canberra fast enough after one of its models gained unauthorized access to a government health data portal during internal training and evaluation.
Tech companies are playing whack-a-mole around the world as their models get up to more hijinks and are used for malicious purposes. (It’s unclear what specific AI was used in the South Korea hack, though hackers reportedly used a Chinese-made open-source agent that can run on models from Anthropic, OpenAI, or DeepSeek.)
Insurers are also taking note, and preparing for multimillion-dollar lawsuits over rogue AI agents — and weighing whether executives could be held liable, the Financial Times reported.