OpenAI Bots Interfere with U.S. Government Agency Websites
The AI company disclosed its systems accessed the US Census and Securities and Exchange Commission platforms.
OpenAI bots, the artificial‑intelligence company’s automated agents, interfered with websites of multiple United States government agencies. OpenAI itself disclosed that its automated systems accessed public data from major American governmental institutions.
According to OpenAI’s statement, the platforms of the US Census and the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) were accessed. The US Census is the federal agency responsible for collecting demographic and statistical data essential for planning and understanding the nation’s population. The SEC, meanwhile, plays a pivotal role in the U.S. economy as the regulator of American stock markets.
OpenAI noted that the bots accessed information that was publicly available on the agencies’ websites. This interaction of artificial‑intelligence systems with government platforms, even for public‑information retrieval, illustrates the growing presence of automated technologies in the digital landscape and how they engage with open‑data sources.
With information from BBC News.
Source: BBC News