The CEOs of OpenAI and Anthropic have been called to appear at an Australian Senate inquiry on AI, the head of the ​probe said on Sunday, days after the revelation that a rogue OpenAI ‌bot had hacked the country’s health-system database.

The Medicare breach, condemned by Prime Minister Anthony Albanese, is one of the highest-profile incidents of AI agents accessing external systems outside ​the US.

OpenAI’s Sam Altman and Anthropic’s Dario Amodei have been sent ​written requests to appear at the inquiry, which is to ⁠hold public hearings in the capital Canberra on Thursday, said a spokesperson ​for Senator Sarah Hanson-Young of the Australian Greens party, who chairs the probe.