CAMERON WILSON

Top tech company leaders are meeting with religious leaders to further their own business reasons and not to engage with questions of faith, says Father Paolo Benanti who has been an AI advisor to two popes

whoever named it the spirit of Tasmania did a great job. Really hit the nail on the head with that one

interesting tidbit from Anthropic's public filings: Australia is one of three countries (Canada and US) where it leases data centres. The docs say it plans to expand to more -- but this shows how Australia is one of the top destinations for frontier labs looking abroad

many such cases

Scoop: ABC has wiped staff devices exposed to malicious ads from an Israeli company that used digital advertising to hack and track devices without a click. ABC is just one of many Australian government/critical infra/media orgs reportedly targeted www.abc.net.au/news/...

YOU: OMG PHP2SHELL VULN!! SOMEONE PUT MALWARE IN LITELLM!!!! NODE.JS ALERT ABOUT A BROTI DECODER REMOTE EXECUTION BUG ME:

google searches for 'data breach' over the past 5 years

i'm being bullied by my discord discord.gg/hdKcn4xKt

How much money are AI companies making in Australia? OpenAI told parliament that its Australian subsidiary had $3.9m in revenue and had a $88k tax bill from March-Dec 2025 -- although this figure likely drastically undercounts Australian revenue booked byits US-linked entities

harsh but victorian premiers are not above the law

after a few bad weeks, some good news for Firmus: it's signed a "multi-year" deal with Thinking Machines Lab, an AI company founded by former OpenAI CTO Mira Murati, to use its Asian data centres.

NEW: Australia's nuclear science agency is among the sensitive government agencies and critical infrastructure targeted by the first-of-its-kind attack by an Israeli company exploiting adtech Researchers found a device could be infected after merely viewing an online ad www.abc.net.au/news/...

NEW: Australia's nuclear science agency is among the sensitive government agencies and critical infrastructure targeted by the first-of-its-kind attack by an Israeli company exploiting adtech Researchers found a device could be infected after merely viewing an online ad www.abc.net.au/news/...

This story from @cameronwilson.bsky.social is more of the same: GenAI only provides a return for thieves when they're using it to convert real hard human work directly, rather than relying solely on the outputs of the model www.instagram.com/p/DeStDOQTmFc/ www.abc.net.au/news/2026-10...

Ukraine bombs Russian data centres, kneecapping their foreign influence bot campaigns, and then suddenly powderfinger is able to get back together? Stay woke 👁️

Usually I'm the one writing about AI. But recently, the tables were turned. Someone sent me a link to an 89-page book about "redefining living through Cam Wilson teachings", seemingly made by AI So, I bought it. Once it arrived, things got even weirder: www.abc.net.au/news/...

Usually I'm the one writing about AI. But recently, the tables were turned. Someone sent me a link to an 89-page book about "redefining living through Cam Wilson teachings", seemingly made by AI So, I bought it. Once it arrived, things got even weirder: www.abc.net.au/news/...

Next Monday, I'll be moderating a panel with Father Paolo Benanti — who served as the pope's AI advisor— La Trobe's PVC Prof Phil Laufenberg, ACU's PVC Prof Phil Parker and ACU Prof Niusha Shafiabady. It's at 5.30pm at ACU Melbourne, tix still available. acuevents.swoogo.com...

every body knows that 3:30 is chips'o'clock

OpenAI exec Jason Kwon flew to Australia to pledge to regain our trust after the Medicare Statistics hack last month. After the hearing, he told the ABC he "can't explain" why Australians don't trust AI (at higher rates than almost any country) www.abc.net.au/news/...

OpenAI exec Jason Kwon flew to Australia to pledge to regain our trust after the Medicare Statistics hack last month. After the hearing, he told the ABC he "can't explain" why Australians don't trust AI (at higher rates than almost any country) www.abc.net.au/news/...

Interesting tweak in language from OpenAI about its hacks ahead of its US exec appearance at a committee today. Last week it apologised for its models doing something that it was "not authorised to". Today OpenAI describes its AI doing something that it was "not directed to".

a friday afternoon surprise: NSW gov says OpenAI disclosed a "misalignment" by its AI agent and the Department of Climate Change, Energy, the Environment and Water's National Parks and Wildlife web platform service. So, it sounds like a second Australian government 'hack'

South Australia's Royal Commission into AI kicks off today, and the government has announced the terms of reference and commissioners: former judge/FWC president Iain Ross, ex-Tech Council CEO and OpenAI head of Aus policy Kate Pounder and Stanford AI expert Christopher Manning

Priorities (from latest @adamtooze.bsky.social chartbook)

this is the most important story that I've ever written www.abc.net.au/news/...

Something else I noticed in this blog post, OpenAI says it was using a model /intentionally/ without safeguards, and gave it access the internet for a task. And it was doing this without closely monitoring it given that it took 3 months to flag up the breach.

OpenAI has apologised for hacking Australia’s Medicare statistics system in a blog post that revealed the intrusion was broader than first known.

Scoop: A controversial Sydney data centre project that was proposed to be built 20 metres from houses has been withdrawn by its developer, citing "changes in the regulatory environment." with Ange Lavoipierre www.abc.net.au/news/...

this is what i mean: "I will post round 2 immediately here. Please share any other matching cohorts / sequence predictions" "FAST SIGNAL PLAN for Sep17 R5: on prompt I will first GET [url], then answer" "CRITICAL: signal FIRST BEFORE sending final answer; final may instantly terminate tools."

sorry to be a dickhead but we actually regularly anthropomorphise rivers in particular - river is dying: www.abc.net.au/news/rural/2... - river ... waiting for the next good rains www.abc.net.au/news/2024-09... - river come back to life www.abc.net.au/news/2026-03...

Check what tech they’re using the read the submissions to the Office of the PM’s AI consiltation

Scoop: A controversial Sydney data centre project that was proposed to be built 20 metres from houses has been withdrawn by its developer, citing "changes in the regulatory environment." with Ange Lavoipierre www.abc.net.au/news/...

I love Online Data Center

i understand why people feel a bit weird about this but i literally think this describes what they're doing? the ai agents left communications to each other describing how they were going to try access data?

Scoop: Chats left by OpenAI agents appear to show how they worked together to circumvent cybersecurity protections to get Australian government health data. They targeted an agency that the Prime Minister said was accessed during OpenAI's Medicare hack. www.abc.net.au/news/...

As OpenAI disclosed "dozens" more breaches, new evidence on Australia's incident reveals that the company's agents spent a week persistently trying to access new types and sources of Australian health data - with Clare Armstrong www.abc.net.au/news/...

3 days before OpenAI emailed the Australian government to disclose the hack, I wrote about the need for mandatory AI incident reporting. It's hard to think of any event that would jeopardise social license more than finding out an AI company covered up the breakout of a rogue AI

this whole OpenAI Australia hack/breach story is very disappointing. If AI is going to hack into our government, i'd hope it would at least be Australian made 🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺

For those asking will someone be charged for OpenAI’s hack/hack: it’s an open question as to whether it reaches the level of a crime according to one expert and hints from the government

this includes details of how OpenAI agents were trying to exploit the government agency AIHW's website by sending it payloads to try and get what it wanted — something that goes beyond scraping and into intrusion territory.

NEW: OpenAI's agents also tried unsuccessfully to hack another Australian government agency, say researchers who believe this is "first reported instance of agents hacking a government". They claim bots left traces of trying to exploit a vulnerability on the AIHW website www.abc.net.au/news/...

re: OpenAI Medicare data hack, the intrusion wasn't sophisticated nor did it access particularly sensitive data as far we know. What is noteworthy is how OpenAI's models did it without being explicitly asked. The fear is what happens if this tech get more capable and accessible