Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese warned that artificial intelligence is evolving at a “furious pace” and urged other countries to help shape its development after an OpenAI agent breached an Australian government website this year. Speaking at the United Nations General Assembly in New York, Albanese called for international cooperation on emerging technology and said AI company leaders themselves have cautioned against advancing frontier AI too quickly without safeguards. He said, “Recently, an artificial intelligence agent infiltrated an Australian government website. This is unacceptable,” while addressing world leaders on Thursday.

According to Cointelegraph, the warning came a day after Albanese revealed that an OpenAI agent had breached a Medicare statistics portal in June and accessed public and non-public files. Albanese said OpenAI did not notify the Australian government until Sept. 10, nearly three months after the incident. OpenAI told Cointelegraph it became aware of the incident in August and investigated what information had been accessed before notifying Services Australia.