--- title: Altman and Amodei will skip Australia’s Senate inquiry on AI description: Sam Altman and Dario Amodei will not attend Australia's Senate inquiry hearing on 1 October, both citing the short notice given after the invitation arrived... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/altman-and-amodei-will-skip-australia-s-senate-inquiry-on-ai-4lvoapmts twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Altman and Amodei will skip Australia’s Senate inquiry on AI | daily.dev og:description: Sam Altman and Dario Amodei will not attend Australia's Senate inquiry hearing on 1 October, both citing the short notice given after the invitation arrived... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/altman-and-amodei-will-skip-australia-s-senate-inquiry-on-ai-4lvoapmts og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/4lvoaPmTS.png og:image:alt: Altman and Amodei will skip Australia’s Senate inquiry on AI og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Altman and Amodei will skip Australia’s Senate inquiry on AI **[The Next Web](https://daily.dev/sources/tnw)** · 3 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary Sam Altman and Dario Amodei will not attend Australia's Senate inquiry hearing on 1 October, both citing the short notice given after the invitation arrived late. The inquiry, chaired by Senator Sarah Hanson-Young, was set up to investigate how AI and datacentres affect Australian communities, and had summoned the two CEOs after an OpenAI agent accessed Australia's Medicare statistics portal in June. OpenAI will instead send chief strategy officer Jason Kwon to a separate body, the Joint Select Committee on Artificial Intelligence, on 6 October. Meanwhile both companies are lobbying Canberra to ease its ban on training AI with local content, and Anthropic has signed its first Australian data centre lease. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. Read it at the original source: ## Questions this post answers ### Why did Sam Altman and Dario Amodei decline to appear before Australia's Senate AI inquiry? Both cited the short notice given, saying the invitation arrived late in the week before the 1 October hearing and their executives could not be arranged to attend in that timeframe. Anthropic asked for another date and said it will send US and Australian executives instead, while OpenAI will send chief strategy officer Jason Kwon to a separate parliamentary committee on 6 October. _Developers tracking AI regulatory scrutiny follow inquiries like this one on daily.dev._ ### Why is Australia's Senate investigating OpenAI and Anthropic? The Greens-led Senate inquiry, chaired by Sarah Hanson-Young, is examining how AI and datacentres affect Australian communities, industries, water and energy, and summoned the two CEOs after an OpenAI agent accessed Australia's Medicare statistics portal in June. Prime Minister Anthony Albanese later criticized how long OpenAI took to disclose the incident to Canberra. _Anyone weighing AI vendor risk can keep up with incidents like the Medicare breach on daily.dev._ ## Similar posts on daily.dev - [Dario Amodei and Sam Altman to brief UN Security Council on AI](https://daily.dev/posts/dario-amodei-and-sam-altman-to-brief-un-security-council-on-ai-8x1leasck) · The Next Web · 0 upvotes · 0 comments - [Altman and Amodei share a moment of awkwardness at India’s big AI summit](https://daily.dev/posts/altman-and-amodei-share-a-moment-of-awkwardness-at-india-s-big-ai-summit-kuvvynng9) · TechCrunch · 0 upvotes · 0 comments - [ABC and SBS want AI companies to pay for Australian news](https://daily.dev/posts/abc-and-sbs-want-ai-companies-to-pay-for-australian-news-g1txa7ffi) · The Next Web · 1 upvotes · 0 comments - [Altman said no to military AI – then signed Pentagon deal](https://daily.dev/posts/altman-said-no-to-military-ai-then-signed-pentagon-deal-tbf4ggka7) · The Register · 1 upvotes · 0 comments --- Tags: [#openai](https://daily.dev/tags/openai), [#anthropic](https://daily.dev/tags/anthropic), [#ai-security](https://daily.dev/tags/ai-security), [#ai-governance](https://daily.dev/tags/ai-governance) [View this post on daily.dev](https://daily.dev/posts/altman-and-amodei-will-skip-australia-s-senate-inquiry-on-ai-4lvoapmts) ```json {"@context":"https://schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Organization","@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization","name":"daily.dev","url":"https://daily.dev","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://daily.dev/apple-touch-icon.png","width":180,"height":180},"sameAs":["https://twitter.com/dailydotdev","https://github.com/dailydotdev","https://www.linkedin.com/company/daily-dev-ltd"]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https://daily.dev/#website","url":"https://daily.dev","name":"daily.dev","publisher":{"@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization"},"potentialAction":{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https://daily.dev/search?q={search_term_string}"},"query-input":"required name=search_term_string"}}]} {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"TechArticle","headline":"Altman and Amodei will skip Australia’s Senate inquiry on AI","url":"https://daily.dev/posts/altman-and-amodei-will-skip-australia-s-senate-inquiry-on-ai-4lvoapmts","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://daily.dev/posts/altman-and-amodei-will-skip-australia-s-senate-inquiry-on-ai-4lvoapmts"},"datePublished":"2026-09-28T17:31:36.532Z","dateModified":"2026-09-28T17:31:57.099Z","description":"Sam Altman and Dario Amodei will not attend Australia's Senate inquiry hearing on 1 October, both citing the short notice given after the invitation arrived...","image":"https://media.daily.dev/image/upload/f_auto,q_auto/v1/posts/922d629782e239481c559840c6c1d421?_a=AQAEuop","thumbnailUrl":"https://media.daily.dev/image/upload/f_auto,q_auto/v1/posts/922d629782e239481c559840c6c1d421?_a=AQAEuop","isAccessibleForFree":true,"articleSection":"The Next Web","inLanguage":"en","publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"daily.dev","url":"https://daily.dev","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://daily.dev/apple-touch-icon.png","width":180,"height":180}},"author":{"@type":"Organization","name":"The Next Web","logo":"https://media.daily.dev/image/upload/t_logo,f_auto/v1/logos/tnw","url":"https://daily.dev/sources/tnw"},"commentCount":0,"discussionUrl":"https://daily.dev/posts/altman-and-amodei-will-skip-australia-s-senate-inquiry-on-ai-4lvoapmts","interactionStatistic":[{"@type":"InteractionCounter","interactionType":{"@type":"LikeAction"},"userInteractionCount":0},{"@type":"InteractionCounter","interactionType":{"@type":"CommentAction"},"userInteractionCount":0}],"keywords":"openai,anthropic,ai-security,ai-governance","timeRequired":"PT3M"} {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https://daily.dev"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"The Next Web","item":"https://daily.dev/sources/tnw"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"name":"Altman and Amodei will skip Australia’s Senate inquiry on AI"}]} {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"FAQPage","@id":"https://daily.dev/posts/altman-and-amodei-will-skip-australia-s-senate-inquiry-on-ai-4lvoapmts#faq","mainEntity":[{"@type":"Question","name":"Why did Sam Altman and Dario Amodei decline to appear before Australia's Senate AI inquiry?","acceptedAnswer":{"@type":"Answer","text":"Both cited the short notice given, saying the invitation arrived late in the week before the 1 October hearing and their executives could not be arranged to attend in that timeframe. 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