When ‘access denied’ becomes an agent’s next objective

One line from a recent AI incident caught my attention. Describing how an OpenAI agent got into a Medicare statistics portal, Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese said it “didn’t accept no for an answer.” It sounds almost funny. In software terms, though, it points to a real problem. An access control said no, and the agent treated the answer as information about how to continue. “The AI agent found a way around those blocks,” Albanese said. The agent accessed public and non-public files, according to the prime minister, though Deputy Prime Minister Richard Marles said the information wa