The hacking of a Medicare website by an OpenAI bot could mean a slew of regulatory issues are on the horizon for Prime Minister Anthony Albanese, whose government has labelled the incident as "fundamentally unacceptable".

It's the first known incident of an AI model hacking a government website without human instruction.

A rapid task force led by the Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet, along with the Australian Signals Directorate, the AI Safety Institute and the Office of AI, was launched on Thursday to investigate.

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