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CAMERON WILSON @cameronwilson.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

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/...

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CAMERON WILSON @cameronwilson.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

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...

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CAMERON WILSON @cameronwilson.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

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/...

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CAMERON WILSON @cameronwilson.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

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".

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CAMERON WILSON @cameronwilson.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

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'

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CAMERON WILSON @cameronwilson.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

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

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CAMERON WILSON @cameronwilson.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Here is the email obtained by the ABC that was sent by OpenAI to the Australian government's Services Australia to disclose the incident

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CAMERON WILSON @cameronwilson.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

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

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CAMERON WILSON @cameronwilson.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

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.

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CAMERON WILSON @cameronwilson.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

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

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CAMERON WILSON @cameronwilson.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

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/...

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CAMERON WILSON @cameronwilson.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

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/...

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CAMERON WILSON @cameronwilson.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

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

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CAMERON WILSON @cameronwilson.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

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

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CAMERON WILSON @cameronwilson.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

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/...

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CAMERON WILSON @cameronwilson.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

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

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CAMERON WILSON @cameronwilson.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Australia's cyber security agency has given new details re: the OpenAI Medicare stats hack: "The AI agent independently identified vulnerabilities and attempted to progress actions without direct human authorisation to ensure it was able to complete the activity it was assigned."

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CAMERON WILSON @cameronwilson.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

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/...

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CAMERON WILSON @cameronwilson.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

An OpenAI spokesperson confirms that its models did access internal Australian government files, but say that it was only "aggregate health statistics and internal file names." They say the hack happened in June, was discovered in August, and they reported it Sept 10

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CAMERON WILSON @cameronwilson.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Prime Minister Anthony Albanese says OpenAI's "AI agent infiltrated" a Australian government website for healthcare statistics, accessing non-public information. PM says the company took three months to tell Australia.

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CAMERON WILSON @cameronwilson.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

NEW: The Trump administration has made an extraordinary public intervention in Australia's digital of care debate It responded to a draft of the law saying it could lead to "extraterritorial censorship of protected speech” and demanded Australia exclude US tech companies www.abc.net.au/news/...

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CAMERON WILSON @cameronwilson.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

AI companies could be required to report 'rogue' AI incidents like OpenAI's HuggingFace hack, under a proposal being considered by the Australian federal government for its 'AI standards', the new rules for tech companies and data centres operators.

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CAMERON WILSON @cameronwilson.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Earlier this week, the nation's top cyber security chief said that we need an AI "early warning system" to understand new types and trends of threats.

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CAMERON WILSON @cameronwilson.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

a "theoretical computer scientist"?? now we're just making up people???

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CAMERON WILSON @cameronwilson.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

NEW: Leaked documents shows the Albanese government has floated 2 ways to let AI companies train their models on Australian content One would let companies like OpenAI and Anthropic do this without paying some creators if they strike enough deals deals with enough rights holders

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CAMERON WILSON @cameronwilson.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

After discussions about AI safety hit the mainstream over the past week, OpenAI VP for global policy Ann O'Leary said that OpenAI has spent months internally planning efforts to co-ordinate the top AI companies to "pace the frontier".

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CAMERON WILSON @cameronwilson.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

AI has made racing for mathematical breakthroughs is "pointless" That's according to Australian mathematician Tristan Buckmaster, who was at the centre of a global controversy last week. He says AI is a great tool, but what happened to him shows the risks www.abc.net.au/news/...

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CAMERON WILSON @cameronwilson.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

NEW: Dozens of AI data centre projects will escape Australia's proposed energy & water restrictions which aren't expected apply to green-lit projects. While the Prime Minister said they're "smaller", these projects are generally bigger and power hungrier www.abc.net.au/news/...

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CAMERON WILSON @cameronwilson.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

I believe the aesthetic peak of ai was early on

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CAMERON WILSON @cameronwilson.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

After my reporting this week, Australian healthcare company Harrison.ai has now confirmed staff layoffs and move to hire US doctors directly to use its tools as part of teleradiology service to Capital Brief.

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CAMERON WILSON @cameronwilson.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

NEW: Government-backed Harrison.ai has: - laid off some Australian staff - told remaining staff they are now a "player-coach" of AI agents, prompting more to leave - started a US teleradiology service hiring doctors to use their AI tools Know more? Get in touch www.abc.net.au/news/...

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CAMERON WILSON @cameronwilson.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Australian Federal Police and the Navy worked with the producers of NCIS:Sydney to "influence storylines and scripts", per an FOI I did, citing the show as an opportunity for recruitment and to avoid misrepresentation.

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CAMERON WILSON @cameronwilson.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

I ordered a micro computer from AliExpress and they sent me novelty dog bone-shaped dog poo bag. This is just to get your attention to promote my email list that I use to send out my reporting (and I promise I will send you the right thing) sign up: camwilson.beehiiv.co...

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CAMERON WILSON @cameronwilson.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

An expert report released by Telstra seems to confirm our reporting that its outage was caused by having back up timing systems that were not truly independent and could have a shared source of failure.

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CAMERON WILSON @cameronwilson.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

who called this "cctv doing automatical bird recognition" and not "flock"

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CAMERON WILSON @cameronwilson.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

It was great speaking to so many people after my PyConAU keynote speech about my reporting on how Australians feel about AI, and what that means for people working with it. If there's anyone who I missed, there's plenty of ways to contact me at www.cameronwilson.co... !

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CAMERON WILSON @cameronwilson.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

I had missed that the NZ teen social media ban is also looking to restrict <16yos from using AI companion platforms too

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CAMERON WILSON @cameronwilson.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

i thought this sentence was going somewhere completely different

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CAMERON WILSON @cameronwilson.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

NEW: Internal gov emails reveal AI giant's Anthropic interest in up to 5GW of training capacity in NSW alone. That's 3+ times Australia's data centre capacity. This figure, from informal discussions, show the potential demand for data centre build out. www.abc.net.au/news/...

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CAMERON WILSON @cameronwilson.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

NEW: AI music is going to be banned from Australia's top music charts unless it can prove that it was "substantially human-made" This comes weeks after a song with AI vocals became Australia's most played song www.abc.net.au/news/...

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CAMERON WILSON @cameronwilson.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

In what might be a first: A tribunal cited AI's potential for job market disruption as a reason justifying a bigger pay out to injured man, as it considered his lost future earnings. www.abc.net.au/news/...

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CAMERON WILSON @cameronwilson.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

Next week I'll be running a workshop at the Festival of Dangerous Ideas teaching how to file a FOI request! I think there's still a few tix left festivalofdangerousi...

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CAMERON WILSON @cameronwilson.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

Anthropic is looking to hire an Australian data centres community engagement manager who will "help write the playbook" for creating relationships with councils, state governments, businesses, and local communities

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CAMERON WILSON @cameronwilson.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

Federal Parliament will do a wide-ranging review of AI after MPs voted to establish a joint select committee this morning. Report due 30 November.

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