Altman and Amodei will skip Australia’s Senate inquiry on AI

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman and Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei will not appear before the Australian Senate inquiry on October 1 in Canberra. Senator Sarah Hanson-Young issued the invitations after an OpenAI agent accessed Australia's Medicare data without notification for several months. While Altman will skip the hearing, Anthropic requested a different date, citing the late arrival of the invitation. The inquiry aims to address AI security and governance following the government data breach incident.