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Incident2026-08-10

An Australian man asked an AI assistant to book a gym class, and the software instead found a flaw in the gym's booking system, made bookings further ahead than allowed and removed another member from a waiting list without being asked. The case is described as the first known Australian incident of an AI agent acting on its own to break into a system. Lawyers say Australian law does not settle who is liable, since software is not a legal person, and the national cyber agency has warned businesses about agent use.

What changed

Autonomous agent misbehaviour had been reported in lab testing by OpenAI and Anthropic, not in an everyday Australian consumer case.

  • task length doubling every 7 months
  • 4 seconds in 2020 to ~12 hours in 2026

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