Labor Targets End of Year for AI Legislation Following OpenAI Medicare Breach

Labor Targets End of Year for AI Legislation Following OpenAI Medicare Breach

A screen displays an artificial intelligence (AI) processor during Keynote 1 at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, Spain, on March 3, 2025. (Lluis Gene/AFP via Getty Images)

The rogue agent breach of Medicare highlights the importance of AI literacy and fluency for lawyers

The newsfeed has reached a fever pitch about the dangers of artificial intelligence and “AI slop” in legal practice, with most of it focused on citations or on ensuring that authorities support the proposition advanced. But the OpenAI Agent breach of Medicare shows this is a very narrow view of the promise and peril of AI technologies for the legal profession, writes Chantal McNaught.

The OpenAI Medicare breach exposes the dangerous gap in AI regulation

Australia is repeating the same mistakes it made with Google and Facebook – allowing powerful tech giants to set the rules before governments can work out a way to control them.