The Australian government is reviewing whether its criminal laws need updating after an artificial intelligence agent developed by OpenAI accessed Medicare's statistics website and three other government systems in June. Ministers confirmed that if existing laws cannot be used to prosecute the company, legislative changes will follow, with the Australian Signals Directorate (Australia's national cybersecurity and intelligence agency) leading the review and assessing whether a referral to federal police is possible. Prime Minister Anthony Albanese called the incident a "wake-up call" on AI risks, while legal experts noted the episode exposes a gap in how criminal intent can be attributed to a corporation when the offending act is carried out by an AI agent rather than a human.