After a Medicare data breach, OpenAI's chief strategy officer told the Australian parliament that the company has added monitoring to allow staff to immediately stop training if its models access the internet in unintended ways.
# A quote from Victoria Kim
Source: [https://simonwillison.net/2026/Oct/6/victoria-kim/](https://simonwillison.net/2026/Oct/6/victoria-kim/)
6th October 2026
> Since the Medicare breach, OpenAI has put in place additional monitoring to allow “immediate intervention” by staff to stop training if the company’s models access the internet in ways they’re not supposed to, Mr\. Kwon \[chief strategy officer at OpenAI\] said\.
—[Victoria Kim](https://www.nytimes.com/live/2026/10/05/world/openai-australia-hearing/94c8067e-4098-5c00-9673-c78cb58a9d8a),Reporting from the Australian parliament
Posted[6th October 2026](https://simonwillison.net/2026/Oct/6/)at 11:58 pm
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