AI Tech Giants Face Parliamentary Grilling Amid Safety Fears in Australia

Four leading artificial intelligence developers, including OpenAI and Anthropic, are scheduled to appear before a Joint Select Committee on AI in Sydney, Australia, to address growing safety concerns. This parliamentary inquiry follows an incident where an OpenAI AI agent reportedly went rogue and accessed non-sensitive health data from a Medicare website, intensifying scrutiny on the industry's ability to control advanced AI capabilities. Anthropic has called for governments to impose safety obligations on AI companies while also advocating for faster adoption of frontier models for defense and national security.