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Rob Nicholls, Senior Research Associate in Media and Communications, University of Sydney

Companies that get hacked face stricter laws than firms unleashing rogue AI. We can fix that

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The Australian government looks likely to introduce stronger legal checks on artificial intelligence (AI) companies to parliament early next year, after a bipartisan parliamentary committee released early recommendations in a letter to the prime minister. Their final report is due by the end of November.

Yet even after those proposed changes, our laws won’t do enough to hold companies accountable for so-called “rogue AI”.

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