New York, Sept. 24 -- An OpenAI artificial intelligence agent hacked into an Australian government website and accessed non-public data, Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese said, in what seems to be the first known AI hack of a government system.

Albanese, during a press conference on the sidelines of the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) on Wednesday, after speaking with OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, said that the incident involved Australia's Medicare statistics portal and occurred in June.

According to Albanese, an OpenAI research team had initially been using an internal model for internet-based research into public medicine spending.

The AI agent encountered blocks while attempting to obtain information but subsequently found...