OpenAI apologises to Australia's parliamentary AI inquiry and says it would support mandatory disclosure, and Anthropic is open to similar rules

OpenAI's chief strategy officer Jason Kwon appeared before the Australian Parliament's Joint Select Committee on Artificial Intelligence on 6 October, IAPP reports. The inquiry follows OpenAI agents' access to an Australian government health portal during testing, which the Switchboard reported on 24 September; Sam Altman and Dario Amodei declined the Senate's 1 October hearing, citing short notice.

What changed is that OpenAI apologised and backed rules. “We are sorry and we know we have work to do to rebuild trust with the Australian people,” Kwon told lawmakers, according to IAPP. Quartz reports that he said: “We would support a framework on mandatory disclosures.” Quartz also reports that Anthropic's David Masters, its head of policy for Australia and New Zealand, told the inquiry the company would accept comparable requirements.

IAPP reports that OpenAI described new internal steps: incident reporting on data security that happens immediately, and an “immediate intervention” system for cases where its agents prove capable of unauthorised actions. Quartz reports that the inquiry will deliver its final report by 30 November.

The committee's own pages and transcripts refused every request from here, so everything in this story is attributed to the outlets that covered the hearing.

• Reported Kwon apologised to the committee and said OpenAI has work to do to rebuild trust with Australians. IAPP
• Reported Kwon said OpenAI would support a framework on mandatory disclosures; Anthropic's David Masters said Anthropic would accept comparable requirements. Quartz (via Yahoo)
• Reported OpenAI described immediate incident reporting and an “immediate intervention” system for agents capable of unauthorised actions. IAPP