OpenAI’s Medicare breach has prompted a government-wide assessment of cyber systems to bolster Australia’s public sector against further AI threats – deliberate or not.
Home affairs directed all government departments and agencies to undertake a “rapid” stocktake of legacy systems, to formulate risk management for legacy technology and to report their compliance back to the department.
The directive prioritises systems of government significance – the government’s critical systems – with a review due by the end of the year, while other systems will be assessed by March.
The acting home affairs minister, Richard Marles, said AI is “changing the environment in which we operate at extraordinary speed.”
double quotation markWe can’t wait for an old system to fail before replacing it. We need to identify vulnerabilities and deal with them before they can be exploited.
