Australia is run on legacy systems that AI agents can easily exploit, former UN cyber negotiator warns
2026-09-27 · AI (artificial intelligence) | The Guardian
Australia's creaky government IT systems are sitting ducks for AI agents, warns a former UN cyber negotiator, while federal cabinet scrambles to discuss an OpenAI breach. Nothing says 'digital transformation' like discovering your infrastructure from the dial-up era is now being probed by autonomous AI. OpenAI has paused testing its latest models amid the fallout, which is reassuring in the way a pilot saying 'we're experiencing some turbulence' is reassuring.