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Henry Fraser, Research Fellow in Law, Accountability and Data Science, Queensland University of Technology

Australia just outlined more ‘AI safety’ priorities, but is the plan actually coherent?

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This week, a group of ministers issued a joint media release outlining a a series of artificial intelligence (AI) “safety priorities” for the Australian government. These include:

  • introducing a digital duty of care to address risks from AI and digital services
  • consulting on a second round of privacy law reforms
  • AI safety in the workplace
  • consumer risks such as surveillance pricing and AI agent-based commerce
  • a framework to regulate government use of automated decision-making.
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