Australia news live: Albanese ramps up security council bid at UN; Hume says AI hack shows Australia needs more AI

Follow the day’s news liveGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastAI hack of Medicare exposes Australia’s vulnerabilitiesTechnology experts have warned revelations an artificial intelligence agent hacked Medicare’s internal systems will not be the only dangerous breach of government data and have called for Australia to boost its protections against the growing risk.Frontier AI now has capability to expose those vulnerabilities at a rate quicker than we can keep up, quicker than we can patch them.What if it was a less benign breach? What if it was a less benign actor? Let’s face it, clearly, Services Australia’s