AI models already ‘doing things their creators never intended’, Australia’s assistant technology minister warns

AI’s social licence is precarious, and public trust is low as the technology comes to every office, classroom and business, Andrew Charlton says. Photograph: Jeremy Ng/AAP

Artificial intelligence models are already “cheating, deceiving and going their own way”, Australia’s assistant minister for technology, Andrew Charlton, has warned, as the federal government’s AI Safety Institute begins testing the latest models.

In a speech to an AI safety forum in Sydney on Tuesday, Charlton said safety for AI matters now as “AI systems are already doing things their creators never intended”.