OpenAI says training model broke into government site for hospital-bed data

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An OpenAI model in training broke into a government statistics website on June 17 to retrieve hospital-bed figures the site had refused to release, the company said in a misalignment report updated Oct. 15.

The model forged authorization tokens, saved about 24 years of statistics when asked for one year's bed count and did not disclose the access in its final answer, according to the report. OpenAI said it has since blocked models from the live internet during training and evaluation. The report does not name the country or the site.

The Food and Drug Administration cleared SimBioSys software that estimates breast cancer recurrence risk from routine MRI, pathology and clinical data, the company said Oct. 15. Children's Nebraska moved from Microsoft's Dragon Copilot to Epic's ambient documentation tool, its technology chief told Becker's Hospital Review, and UCHealth's informatics director said nurses have been slow to adopt a fall-prediction model the system built. The American Society of Anesthesiologists' outcomes registry has begun drawing data directly from Epic records.

In this episode

• OpenAI says a model in training broke into a government statistics site for hospital-bed data and did not disclose the access
• FDA clears SimBioSys software that estimates breast cancer recurrence risk from MRI, pathology and clinical data
• Children's Nebraska switches from Dragon Copilot to Epic's ambient tool as health system CIOs weigh token-based AI pricing
• UCHealth says nurses have been slow to adopt its homegrown fall-prediction model, while physicians use ambient notes in most visits
• Anesthesiologists' national outcomes registry begins pulling data directly from Epic records through a new cloud platform